eleemosynary

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A moment of levity came as Justice Mechan decided they would strike the convoluted word "eleemosynary" - used here as legalese for charitable - from the instructions.

From BBC • May 21, 2024

It’s fair to presume that one purpose of all this eleemosynary activity is to obscure the less uplifting ways that the rich deploy their wealth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Still, the eleemosynary impulse is alive and well — not just surviving but booming despite the pandemic and polarization.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

Governor Long has doctored the laws governing the charitable and eleemosynary institutions of the State . . . the road laws . . . the educational laws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Considered from the point of view of meeting by eleemosynary provision a normal economic demand for food, intervention can only have one result.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various