eleemosynary
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Eleemosynary Reading of Lee Blessing’s play about three generations of brilliant women in the same family.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2016
The Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eleemosynary, el-e-mos′i-nar-i, adj. relating to charity or almsgiving: dependent on charity: given in charity.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Mrs. Paynter's Boarding-House: which was not founded as an Eleemosynary Institution.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
Eleemosynary relief never yet tranquillized the working-classes—it never made them grateful; it is not in human nature that it should.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
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