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Charitable

adjective

Relating to or characterized by charity.

Full of love and generosity. "A charitable trust"

Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity. Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic. "Kindly criticism" , "A kindly act" , "Sympathetic words" , "A large-hearted mentor"

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"Charitable" Quotes from Famous Books

... friend—a student at the Conservatoire. The money would see her through the expenses of Dr Hegelmann's nursing home and for a few months afterwards—a year at the outside. After that she must inevitably be dependent on the charity of friends or on some charitable institution. ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... faculties in the home and market-place. In the last analysis, Jesus Christ is the only perfect gentleman our earth has ever known—in comparison with whom all the Chesterfields seem boors. For nothing taxes a man so heavily as the task of maintaining smooth, pleasant and charitable relations with one's fellows. And Christ alone was able always to meet storm with calm, hate with love, scowls with smiles, plottings with confidence, envy ...

— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

... Ca da Mosto says, wash themselves four or five times a day, being very cleanly as to their persons, but not so in eating, in which they observe no rule. They are full of words, and never have done talking; and are, for the most part, liars and cheats. Yet, on the other hand, they are very charitable; for they give a dinner or a night's lodging and a supper, to all strangers who come to their ...

— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps

... rich Catholics endow foundations for the education of the priesthood? Why do you not permit them to do so? Why are all such bequests subject to the interference, the vexatious, arbitrary, peculating interference of the Orange commissioners for charitable donations? ...

— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron

... is kind o' company to him," said Jim Mason. "Happen it's lonesomeness as drives him here so much." And happen you were right, charitable Jim. ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

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