Meaning of Almoner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who distributes alms, especially the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses.
2. A person who dispenses alms on behalf of another person.
3. A hospital official responsible for patient welfare and aftercare.
   British

Equivalents

Examples

“the almoner of a prince or bishop”

“Francesca, from where she stood, could hear⟳ the Queen giving a laughing account of the Due de Domville's attachment to Mademoiselle Menneville, the prettiest of her maids of honour, all of whom were pretty. "It is a passion of the good old time, and has already lasted some four years; but Madame la Duchesse de Vantadour, his mother, will not hear⟳ of it. Never before was a lover of fifty so put⟳ out, to think⟳ that he cannot yet have⟳ his own⟳ way. Not content with his own⟳ cares, when obliged to be absent he leaves his almoner to take⟳ charge of her. It is gallantry equally antediluvian and interminable; I suppose⟳ they will be married one day, and buried the next."”

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