philanthropical

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“Jacinda could be tapped by any number of United Nations, or charitable, or philanthropical, or other kinds of organizations,” Hoadley said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Mrs. Smith was perhaps best known for the far-reaching philanthropical work that she and her husband, the late Robert H. Smith, undertook.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

“A circle of like-minded philanthropical ladies, meeting, as was their habit, at Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party in Candler Park.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

ExxonMobil heads the list with a donation of between $1m and $5m that it claimed was purely philanthropical.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015

He threw himself heartily into all their philanthropical schemes—the promotion of Sunday-schools, the agitation for the abolition of negro slavery, and the newly reawakened zeal for foreign missions.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)