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alms

noun as in handout

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The teashop occupies a medieval building that was, for centuries, an alms house.

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L.A.-based alms would be directed toward the Catholic Education Foundation of Los Angeles, while New York dollars will head to the John Cardinal O’Connor School in Irvington, N.Y.

In Cambodia, novice monks wearing saffron robes joined elders seeking alms.

Like giving alms, his congregants should give waqf, a kind of religious donation, to renewable energy.

The royal cohort also carried with them gold-lined chests filled with silver and gold pieces to distribute as alms, cash worth thousands of rupees and 12,000 "dresses of honour".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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