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synonyms for eleemosynary

  • benevolent
  • charitable
  • gratuitous
  • philanthropic
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How to use eleemosynary in a sentence

Eleemosynary corporations are for the management of private property, according to the will of the donors.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER
If the view which has been taken of this question be at all correct, this was an eleemosynary corporation, a private charity.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER
The system is industrial and not eleemosynary, aiming solely at providing a recognized market-place for labour.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIAVARIOUS
(c) To public libraries, since they are for the most part eleemosynary institutions, and hence entitled to charity.
PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONVARIOUS
The lantern shone also against the knees of Archelaus, and lit up the check-board pattern of the eleemosynary trousers.
MAJOR VIGOUREUXA. T. QUILLER-COUCH
The bounteous alms of John the eleemosynary were dictated by superstition, or benevolence, or policy.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBON
Ours is an eleemosynary institution, instructing its members, helping them to seek happiness.
ETIDORHPA OR THE END OF EARTH.JOHN URI LLOYD
This eleemosynary endowment was granted, about sixty years ago, by the then sovereign, Asuf-od Dowlah.
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE KINGDOM OF OUDE, VOLUMES I & IIWILLIAM SLEEMAN
They are "inmates" of an "eleemosynary" institution, and the fact that it is all for education is lost sight of.
THE DEAFHARRY BEST
Of the amount of the eleemosynary harvest, no intimation is to be found.
NOT PAUL, BUT JESUSJEREMY BENTHAM
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WORDS RELATED TO ELEEMOSYNARY

  • accommodating
  • all heart
  • altruistic
  • beneficent
  • benevolent
  • benign
  • big
  • bighearted
  • bountiful
  • eleemosynary
  • good
  • helpful
  • humane
  • humanitarian
  • kind
  • kindly
  • lavish
  • liberal
  • obliging
  • philanthropic
  • sympathetic
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.