almsgiving

[ ahlmz-giv-ing, ahmz- ]

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noun

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.

alms + giving

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

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

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

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

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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