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almsman

[ ahmz-muhn ]

noun

, plural alms·men.
  1. a person supported by or receiving alms.
  2. Archaic. a person who gives alms.


almsman

/ ˈɑːmzmən /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a person who gives or receives alms
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

Is almsman gender-neutral? See -man.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of almsman1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English almes man, Old English ælmesman; alms, -man
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Example Sentences

Buried Eppifania Cakewood, an almsman’s wife.”

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.

These cells were open at the top so that there was plenty of fresh air, and if an almsman became ill or infirm, he could hear the service chanted daily in the chapel without leaving his bed.

What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?

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