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charitable

[char-i-tuh-buhl]

adjective

generous in donations or gifts to relieve the needs of indigent, ill, or helpless persons, or of animals: a charitable man giving much money to feed the poor.

kindly or lenient in judging people, acts, etc.: charitable in his opinions of others.

pertaining to or concerned with charity: a charitable institution.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old French, equivalent to charit(e) charity + -able -able

Related forms

char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun

char·i·ta·bly, adverb

non·char·i·ta·ble, adjective

non·char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun

non·char·i·ta·b·ly, adverb

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o·ver·char·i·ta·ble, adjective

o·ver·char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun

o·ver·char·i·ta·b·ly, adverb

pseu·do·char·i·ta·ble, adjective

pseu·do·char·i·ta·b·ly, adverb

qua·si-char·i·ta·ble, adjective

qua·si-char·i·ta·b·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Synonyms
1. beneficent, liberal, bountiful, benevolent. See generous. 2. broad-minded, considerate, mild.

Antonyms
1. selfish. 2. severe, intolerant.

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Example Sentences

Jobs has not used his prominence to promote charitable giving.

Some of the qualities they looked at were charitable involvement, spiritual quest, and religious engagement.

Schools of both types have a long history of charitable fund-raising.

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Jobs has not used his prominence to promote charitable giving.

Some of the qualities they looked at were charitable involvement, spiritual quest, and religious engagement.

Schools of both types have a long history of charitable fund-raising.

These groups of farmers and craftsmen operated as charitable organizations or militias to protect their villages.

Church groups will aggregate demand to influence charitable giving.

Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Charitable organizations say that hiring online specialists to handle their fundraising efforts is money well spent.

But by global standards, its charitable giving is miserly.

Most of them really can't afford to be engaged in academic charitable giving.

Private donations account for only about a tenth of charitable spending.

Some of the tree sitters use the event's popularity to advance their charitable causes.

The charitable explanation is that these are natural teething pains.

Please tell us your best charitable giving ideas for the season.

The director said he figured a priest wouldn't mind spending eternity in a casket used for such a charitable reason.

The survey asks in part about charitable behavior, including donations, volunteering habits and taking time to help strangers.

Our company works with many charitable organizations going through budget shortfalls.

Thus the warm glow that accompanies charitable giving has a physiological basis.

Today, the choirs function primarily as cultural societies and are devoted to charitable causes and education.

Today he professes to have reformed, renouncing violence and founding a charitable organization.

But the charitable organization's donor base has retrenched in the wake of the financial crisis.

To think, these charitable types will literally then sit up on high and come up with niche solutions.

For centuries education has been considered a charitable activity, with no questions asked.

It causes laughter and good cheer in this ancient charitable place.

Haiti needs charitable funds, let's keep donating to trusted charities.

Once the money is gone, donors do not personally bear direct costs from bad charitable decisions.

If a college isn't out soliciting donors, another organization will get their charitable contributions.

If anything, his charitable activities should have been used to increase his sentence, not decrease it.

Charitable giving fell again last year, reflecting the continued impact of the economic downturn on donations.

With the phone-in votes each campaign could turn a profit and the proceeds used for charitable purposes.

Clearly, the world of food-related charitable giving is much broader than in decades past.

The prime minister recently spoke warmly of charitable and voluntary bodies innovating public services in their communities.

Increased charitable giving and two more dependents explains some of it, but not much.

Receiving a charitable contribution in order to attend a fund-raiser.

Giving back is a great thing to do all year round, but the holidays tend to bring out the charitable side.

But organizations aren't interested only in generating revenue for their charitable work.

Environmental issues are not a charitable adjunct to normal day-to-day.

Any serious discussion of tax reform should examine the government's current treatment of charitable contributions.

The researchers then asked participants to indicate what percentage of a person's income should be spent on charitable donations.

And, if you're the charitable type, you can always stop by the next morning to help with the clean.

Online charitable gift cards allow the recipient to choose the organization that will receive the money given in his or her name.

Sciencephd has a point, but is being too charitable.

Two of last year's biggest charitable bequests will benefit.

That's why they spread their money in advertising, lobbying, along with charitable donations to think-tanks.

Lawmakers suspect that wealthy people are using supporting organizations more for tax planning than for any charitable aim.

The profit has been invested and used to fund charitable works for more than a century-and-a-half.

The question of how to treat charitable donations, he said, is of fundamental importance.

My voting record and charitable contributions support these beliefs.

The issue of whether debtors should be allowed to shield charitable donations from creditors has been contested for decades.

Companies have learned that to promote charitable causes they need to do more than wrap a pink ribbon around a product.

Some members of our community have now backed him with charitable funding.

In the same spirit, other tycoons will pick grand charitable goals to tackle.

Thank you so much plainjane and others for showing such an amazing and charitable level of patience with my question.

Even charitable microcredit, however, is less fashionable than it was.

There have been concerns that donations to hurricane and tsunami relief would cut into other charitable giving.

Taking charitable schools private is a legal headache.

Most adoption agencies are non-profit outfits that see their work as entirely charitable.

Some use the profits from their main business to cross-subsidise their charitable work.

My charitable guess is that there was some internal change with the paper's personnel, and the new staff is more anti-Chinese.

In the midst of the financial crisis, he said he regretted his shrunken salary because it put a crimp on his charitable giving.

The company's charitable foundation is working with.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

charitable (ˈtʃærɪtəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	generous in giving to the needy
2.	kind or lenient in one's attitude towards others
3.	concerned with or involving charity

'charitableness

—n

'charitably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

charitable

mid-14c., in ref. to the Christian virtue, from O.Fr. charitable (13c.), from charité (see charity). Meaning "liberal in treatment of the poor" is from c.1400; that of "inclined to impute favorable motives to others" is from 1620s.

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