alms
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Money or things given to poor people to help them
- noun
- /ɑlmz/
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limosna
- Every Sunday, the community collected alms to help the local homeless shelter.
It is perfected by alms and prayer.
- It is perfected by alms and prayer.
- In asking alms, as he did at first by reason of his poverty, he used this form.
- When somebody gives alms to another person because they're poor, they're doing so because they see the poverty as a bad thing.
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It is perfected by alms and prayer.
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Never mind we got up early to see the giving of the alms ceremony.
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And giving alms would be an expression of a more perfect kind of love, which is what charity is.
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We were out wandering in the rice paddies on a way to a village to collect alms food one day with my teacher, Ajam Cha and some monks.
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The elderly woman donated her savings as alms to support those in need.
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In many cultures, giving alms is an important practice to show compassion for the poor.
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Etymology
Alms comes from an old Greek church word eleemosyne meaning 'mercy' or 'compassion'. So alms are gifts given from mercy to help poor people, like charity.