Crossword clues for alms
alms
- Boons for beggars
- Third Pillar of Islam subject
- Gifts of charity
- Collection for the poor
- Church donation, often
- Charity gifts
- Charity for the poor
- Charitable handouts
- Charitable goods
- Beggar's word
- Aid to the poor
- They're given to relieve the poor
- They may be given in church
- Some charitable donations
- Poor-box donations
- Poor contributions?
- Panhandler's desire
- Money donated to the poor
- Gift for the poor
- Contributions for the poor
- Church collection
- Charitable donation(s)
- Charitable collection
- Boon for a beggar
- Benevolent donations
- Beggars' pleas
- __ box
- Welfare of sorts
- They're given to the poor
- The needy's need
- Some handouts
- Some church collections
- Poor-box filler
- Poor request?
- Poor offerings
- Poor offering
- Poor box deposit
- Poor box contributions
- Offerings for the poor
- Offering for the needy
- Money given for the poor
- Lenten benevolent bestowal
- Kind offering
- Help for the needy
- Handouts to the poor
- Funds for the poor
- Eleemosynary gifts
- Eleemosynary aid
- Donations to those in need
- Donations to the destitute
- Contributions to the poor
- Charity offering
- Charity for the needy
- Charitable relief
- Charitable offer
- Charitable collections for the poor
- Charitable collections
- Beggars want them
- Beggar's returns
- Beggar's income
- Assistance for the poor
- Aid to the needy
- Aid for the poor
- Aid for the needy
- "___, for the love of Allah!"
- "_____ for the poor"
- ''___ for the poor!''
- ___ for the poor
- Pauper's cry
- Handouts for the poor
- Bygone request
- Relief, of a sort
- Money for a poor box
- Charitable giving
- Beggar's quest
- Beggar's cry
- Charitable donations to the needy
- Money for the poor
- Charity of a sort
- Donations for the poor
- Gifts for the poor
- Poor box filler
- Offerings to the needy
- "___ for the poor"
- Salvation Army collection
- Mendicant's want
- Help for the poor
- Gifts to the poor
- Poor support
- Donations to the needy
- Poor returns?
- Offerings to the poor
- Charitable contributions
- Form of relief
- Something for the needy
- Poor box contents
- Old-fashioned charity
- Voluntary contributions to aid the poor
- Something for the poor
- Tax-deduction items
- Maundy money
- Fakir's income
- Mendicant's request
- Destitute's relief
- Baksheesh
- Eleemosynar's largess
- Gift to the needy
- Donation to the poor
- Pauper's wherewithal
- Charitable gifts
- What eleemosynars give
- Mendicant's plea
- Benefactions
- Dole
- Some gifts
- Gifts to charity
- Harriet's underwear enthralled long-legged individual
- Charitable offerings for the poor
- Beggar's request
- Some donations
- Some charity
- "___ for the poor!"
- Help for the hapless
- Poor box donations
- Panhandler's income
- Freewill offering
- Poor-box contents
- Poor reception?
- Poor box donation
- Generous giving
- Donations for the destitute
- Supplicant's request
- Money for the needy
- Funds for the less fortunate
- Donations for the needy
- Charity donations
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alms \Alms\ ([add]mz), n. sing. & pl. [OE. almes, almesse, AS. [ae]lmysse, fr. L. eleemosyna, Gr. 'elehmosy`nh mercy, charity, alms, fr. 'eleei^n to pity. Cf. Almonry, Eleemosynary.] Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people.
--Acts x. 2.
Alms are but the vehicles of prayer.
--Dryden.
Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign.
--Blackstone.
Note: This word alms is singular in its form (almesse), and
is sometimes so used; as, ``asked an alms.''
--Acts
iii. 3. ``Received an alms.''
--Shak. It is now,
however, commonly a collective or plural noun. It is
much used in composition, as almsgiver, almsgiving,
alms bag, alms chest, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English ælmesse "alms, almsgiving," from Proto-Germanic *alemosna (cognates: Old Saxon alamosna, Old High German alamuosan, Old Norse ölmusa), an early borrowing of Vulgar Latin *alemosyna (source of Old Spanish almosna, Old French almosne, Italian limosina), from Church Latin eleemosyna (Tertullian, 3c.), from Greek eleemosyne "pity, mercy," in Ecclesiastical Greek "charity, alms," from eleemon "compassionate," from eleos "pity, mercy," which is of unknown origin, perhaps imitative of cries for alms. Spelling perversion in Vulgar Latin is perhaps by influence of alimonia.
Wiktionary
n. Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
WordNet
n. voluntary contributions to aid the poor [syn: alms-giving, almsgiving]
Wikipedia
Alms (, ) or almsgiving involves giving to others as an act of virtue, either materially or in the sense of providing capabilities (e.g. education) for free. It exists in a number of religions and regions. The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old English ælmesse, ælmes, from Late Latin eleemosyna, from Greek ἐλεημοσύνη eleēmosynē "pity, alms", from ἐλεήμων eleēmōn "merciful", from ἔλεος eleos "pity".
Alms, released October 18, 2004, is the second album of the Montreal-based electronic duo Re:.
Alms may refer to:
- Alms, charitable giving
- the American Le Mans Series
Usage examples of "alms".
As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.
She replied that she was debarred from accepting any money by her vow of poverty and obedience, and that she had given up to the abbess what remained of the alms the bishop had procured her.
With the acrid juice of this herb, and of others belonging to the same Ranunculous order, beggars in England used to produce sores about their body for the sake of exciting pity, and getting alms.
At the second ballet at the opera an actress dressed in a tippet held out her cap to the bones as if to beg an alms, while she was dancing a pas de deux.
Just outside that main gate was the almonry where alms and food were given to the poor.
Be it yours if it suffice you not to have already seized an archbishopric, six vacant sees, and many abbeys, to the peril of your soul, and turned to secular uses the alms of your fathers, of pious kings, the patrimony of Jesus Christ!
If we did not attend mass, the curate would strike our names off the list of those who share the alms of the Confraternity of the Poor, and those alms alone keep us afloat.
In the village of Phullendorf in Germany early in this century there was an old woman who sought alms from place to place, exhibiting to the curious four symmetrical breasts, arranged parallel.
At the beginning of each week, Gena and Mary moved through the tiny villages that surrounded Inveraray and dispensed alms among the people.
He even maintained that he who gave alms sinned unless it was done with the greatest secrecy, for alms given in public are sure to be accompanied by vanity.
I knew that I had spent but a few minutes at Cerigo, on my way to Constantinople, and concluded that my visitor must be one of the unfortunate wretches to whom I gave alms.
He confessed in a humble voice that he was the son of clock-maker at Narva, that his buckles were valueless, and that he had come to beg an alms of me.
Seeing me looking at him, he accosted me, and humbly asked for alms, shewing me a document authorizing him to beg, and a passport stating he had left Madrid six weeks before.
A Capuchin had called on me and I had told Clairmont to give him an alms, but he had said he wanted to speak to me in private.
The fair beggars talked of returning me the alms I had given them, but I replied in such a way that they said no more about it.