An activity or gift that benefits the public at large

Usage examples of charity.

Most of this illegal income came from selling promotional copies of the Concert for Bangla Desh album, taking money which would have otherwise gone to the charity if those albums had been bought through normal channels.

These be generally alms or works of charity of them that have temporal riches or discretion in counselling.

The poor, mangled, much-distorted text about the tree lying as it falls was brought to the fore once again, and, instead of bearing reference to universal charity and almsgiving as it was intended to do, was ruthlessly torn from its context and turned into a parable about the state of the soul at death.

He entreated her to pray with him and by diverse almsgiving and acts of mercy to beggars brought her into charity with him.

As his character was not good, and he had been bred at a charity school in a complete course, according to question and answer, of those ancient people the Amorites and Hittites, he was frequently quoted as an example of the failure of education.

Charity gaped at the screen, the live event cut to a news anchorwoman with the blankest expression since Mount Rushmore.

On the other hand, I passed an Ankole village not too far from here, and they might not understand a gesture of Christian charity.

The pattern of their striving was the career of the historical Buddha as a bodhisattva in his numerous previous lives: in each was performed some act of pre-eminent charity and self-sacrifice by which merit was accumulated and the entitlement to full Enlightenment was brought nearer.

The peculiar doctrines of Christianity, its justification through the merits of another, its humility and charity, were in the last degree opposed to the character of the Burman race.

Nor was the charity of Mahomet confined to the tribe of Koreish, or the precincts of Mecca: on solemn festivals, in the days of pilgrimage, he frequented the Caaba, accosted the strangers of every tribe, and urged, both in private converse and public discourse, the belief and worship of a sole Deity.

This munificent charity from the man of the waters to the poor Cingalese was accepted with a trembling hand.

And yet the police know as well as you or I that every Church charity garden-party has got its clairvoyante or its fortune-teller.

Voorhees added that in 1854 or 1855 the Know Nothings broke up convents, burned Catholic churches, and would have burned Catholics and Sisters of Charity themselves at the stake within her borders, if they had dared to do so.

We have sent into the Net these surrogate messengers to seek out those whose lives, courtesy, works of charity, and creditworthiness indicate they may once have been masters of enlightenment.

Phyllis Dartmoor, Attorney at Law painted on it opened just as Charity was about to walk past.