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- IPA: /ˌɛlɪˈmɑːsənɛri/
- IPA: /ˌɛlɪˈmɑːzənɛri/
- IPA: /ˌɛliɪˈmɑːsənɛri/
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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving.
- Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
- Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
Substantiv
- (obsolete) A beggar
Exempel
- He did some work for the New York Public Library . . . and also dabbled in eleemosynary science for the Russell Sage Foundation.
- An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
- Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.
- [The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution] set the State up as the largest eleemosynary institution in the history of the world.
- Amidst all this, the legal business, the acquiring of land, the construction of the Montgomery Block, Billings had generosity and time to support the founding of the University of California and a half dozen churches, schools, orphan asylums and other eleemosynary institutions.
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