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
Organized last week was the Greater New York Fund, Inc. which, so far as business is concerned, will represent a community chest for 56 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and nonsectarian eleemosynary bodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this appears to be deprived of an eleemosynary character by the fact that by far the largest shares are assigned to those who were presumably the least in need of them.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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