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

This walking monument of beneficence—walking when he does not ride in a well-appointed carriage—is almost the only eleemosynary kind of person, except the actual mendicant, existing among Her Majesty's subjects.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various