Almsgiving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALMSGIVING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of giving alms
• (in historical or religious contexts) the practice of giving money or food to poor people
• making of charitable donations
• The giving of alms.
• making voluntary contributions to aid the poor
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• charity

Words related to ALMSGIVING

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Words that contain ALMSGIVING

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How to use ALMSGIVING in a sentence

• They are to be constant in the exercise of charity and almsgiving, to have a watchful care over all sick brethren, and to support and sustain all old men.
• I suppose there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe.
• The alms-giving was enormous, charity and fear together opened both hearts and purses.
• If what we are told is true, the more binding is the obligation to discover some other way in which our alms-giving may become more effective.
• So almsgiving, and ordinances, and prayer give the poor man no peace.
• Idleness, Sir, deceit, and immorality, are the three children of this same barbarous self-indulgence in almsgiving.
• It was the nature of this desolate child to crave affection, as a necessary, and pitifully she tried to purchase it through almsgiving.
• And whoever among you is sick or hath an ailment of the head must pay a ransom of fasting or almsgiving or offering.
• They purchase commodities of them, or they employ them as labourers, or they visit them in charity for the sake of supplying their most urgent wants by alms-giving.
• He saw no change since his last visit to this big, alms-giving, long-suffering city of the South, the cold weather paradise of the tramps.
• There is no thought of almsgiving on their part, nor a sense of accepting charity on the part of the recipients.
• THE THEORY OF ALMS-GIVING 80 BIBLIOGRAPHY 91 INDEX 93 MEDIAEVAL SOCIALISM CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The title of this book may not unnaturally provoke suspicion.
• CHAPTER VII THE THEORY OF ALMSGIVING Any description of mediaeval socialistic ideals which contained no reference to mediaeval notions of almsgiving would not be complete.
• Almsgiving was for them a necessary corollary to their theories of private possession.
• But because precepts are given in things that concern virtuous living, the almsgiving here referred to must be of such a kind as shall promote virtuous living.
• But that, if there were no convincing signs of absolute need, then the obligation ceased, and almsgiving, from a command, became a counsel.
• Where both these suppositions are fulfilled, the duty of almsgiving becomes a matter not of charity, but of justice.
• I am not one of those who distribute bread at the gate of his palace, nor who seek popularity through almsgiving.
• The mighty halls which ought to have resounded to the laughter of the mistresses of Charles II were diverted to the inevitable squalor of almsgiving.
• There will be less almsgiving, and more of the kind of help which saves manhood and womanhood.
• A mass, a sermon, and alms-giving, commence the ceremonies.
• Now that I have deposited it by alms-giving in the Field of Happiness I know that it is for ever in safety.
• I have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate almsgiving.
• I feel I should be happier if I diverted some of this alms-giving to you.

Similar words containing ALMSGIV without suffix ing

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