almsgiving

[ ahlmz-giv-ing, ahmz- ]

noun

1. the act of donating money, food, or other items to people in need of them, especially as a spiritual practice:

   Almsgiving helps us experience giving freely, which leads to freedom from the obsession with possessing, freedom from the fear of losing what we have.

Word History and Origins

Origin of almsgiving¹

alms + giving

Example Sentences

Is it not my continual labour to keep her from utter penury through her extravagance in almsgiving?

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Almsgiving, therefore, is in its right place here: its source is in the higher regions of the righteousness of the kingdom.

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Even the doctor could not refrain from a dry chuckle at this aspect of Molly Healy's almsgiving.

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And the merrier both for rich and poor, when gentlemen see their almsgiving.

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It was a day on which good Christians observed the solemn Communion, as well as baptisms and acts of hospitality and almsgiving.

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