widow's mite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of widow's mite
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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One group called themselves the Ladies Mite Society, after the Bible story of the widow’s mite.
From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2014
It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left about $61.5 million to his wife Brooke as a taxless widow's mite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow's mite, Or rank with other impoverished lands Labor M.P.
From Time Magazine Archive
What they had given her for her husband's vindication, they denied her as her widow's mite.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prince gave of his abundance, nor was the widow's mite refused; and to this day the reputation of this shrine stands untouched among all papal devotees.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
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