Meaning of eleemosynary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rare spelling of eleemosynary.
   alt-of, rare
2. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving.
3. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms
4. Supported by charity

Examples

“I am bound to say he didn't criticise his benefactors, though practically he got tired of them; she, however, had the highest standards about eleemosynary forms.”

“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.”

“His spirited refusal of an eleemosynary supply of shoes, arose, no doubt, from a proper pride.”

“Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.”

“... it is also true that the policy of nations, or the bounty of individuals, formerly did much to counteract the effect of this limitation of competition, by offering eleemosynary instruction to a much larger class of persons than could have obtained the same advantages by paying their price.”

“[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.”

“University Professorships are founded in connection with these eleëmosynary halls.”

“He was led about by a brisk, middle-aged woman, in straw hat and wooden shoes; and a little barefooted boy, with clear, blue eyes and flaxen hair, held a tattered hat in his hand, in which he collected eleëmosynary sous.”

“The following statistics, for which I am indebted to that encyclopædic storehouse of practical information, Baedeker’s “Paris”, will give the reader some idea of the importance of the eleëmosynary work undertaken by the sub-committee (Assistance Publique) of the council entrusted with the administration of the Paris hospitals: “The twenty hospitals of Paris have an aggregate of upwards of twelve thousand beds. The number of patients annually discharged includes forty-five to fifty thousand men, thirty-six to forty thousand women, and sixteen to eighteen thousand children; the average annual deaths in the hospitals include about seven […]”

“Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh posts about a linguistic, or at least orthographic, advocacy group: Diaeresis Defense, an eleëmosynary reëducation coöperative. Favorite artists: The Brontës. Least favorite artists (winners of Diaeresis Defense’s “Ersatz Dieresis Award”): Mötley Crüe. Slogan: “Two vowels, two sounds, two dots”. I believe the proper expression is “heh”. Er, assuming he’s kidding, of course […]”

“Like the RC priest who was responsible for Knock airport, she was not above using ‘interesting’ methods to fulfil eleëmosynary ambitions.”

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