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Definition of almsgiving in English: almsgivingnounˈɑːmzɡɪvɪŋɑ(l)mzˈɡɪvɪŋ mass noun(in historical or religious contexts) the practice of giving money or food to poor people. benevolence in the form of almsgiving was encouraged Example sentencesExamples - The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving.
- On the other hand, Jesus points out that if believers faithfully practice almsgiving, prayer, and fasting then an unstated heavenly reward awaits them.
- They forgot that God was actually the beginning and end of all their prayer, fasting and almsgiving - and began to see the world revolving round themselves.
- With its emphasis on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, Lent is a time when we are invited to leave our controlled and comfortable environment and enter a place of emptiness and need.
- Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
- One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving.
- He was in charge of the care of church property and almsgiving.
- Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
- In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.
- If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display.
- Of course, there are other forms of almsgiving than money, such as time and talent.
- There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
- The growing alienation of the elites had turned poverty from an opportunity for the Christian virtue of almsgiving into a sign of moral failure.
- He was a regular observer of religious rites, took great pains to secure decorum in the services of the church, and was generous in almsgiving both within his empire and without.
- Welsh kings and lesser lords did participate in an expensive and conspicuously pious practice: they employed what wealth they had on extravagant almsgiving.
- When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret.
- The spiritual practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting are to move us closer to God, not farther from each other.
- The community had to see, in public weeping, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, clear symbols of repentance so that the reclamation of the individual could be entire.
- After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria lived on her dower lands at Le Mans, France, where she was famed for her almsgiving.
- He encouraged devotion to the Host as well as daily almsgiving.
Synonyms benevolence, generosity, humanitarianism, public-spiritedness, altruism, social conscience, social concern, charity, charitableness, brotherly love, fellow feeling, magnanimity, munificence, liberality, largesse, open-handedness, bountifulness, beneficence, benignity, unselfishness, selflessness, humanity, kindness, kind-heartedness, big-heartedness, compassion, humaneness
Derivatives noun These good souls are clearly survivals from the alms-givers of the medieval Church. Example sentencesExamples - He was an almsgiver with a firm determination to study Buddhist scriptures.
- He caught the attention of Archbishop Hubert Walter by 1195, and through him became confessor and alms-giver to King John from 1204 to 1207.
- He was a generous almsgiver.
- Unlike the almsgivers of past times to whom suffering was suffering and to be alleviated however it had been incurred, these men are stern moralists.
Synonyms benefactor, benefactress, humanitarian, patron, patroness, donor, contributor, giver, sponsor, backer, helper, altruist, good samaritan
Definition of almsgiving in US English: almsgivingnounä(l)mzˈɡiviNGɑ(l)mzˈɡɪvɪŋ (in historical or religious contexts) the practice of giving money or food to poor people. benevolence in the form of almsgiving was encouraged Example sentencesExamples - When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret.
- Welsh kings and lesser lords did participate in an expensive and conspicuously pious practice: they employed what wealth they had on extravagant almsgiving.
- On the other hand, Jesus points out that if believers faithfully practice almsgiving, prayer, and fasting then an unstated heavenly reward awaits them.
- The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving.
- He was a regular observer of religious rites, took great pains to secure decorum in the services of the church, and was generous in almsgiving both within his empire and without.
- Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
- If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display.
- There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
- The growing alienation of the elites had turned poverty from an opportunity for the Christian virtue of almsgiving into a sign of moral failure.
- After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria lived on her dower lands at Le Mans, France, where she was famed for her almsgiving.
- Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
- Of course, there are other forms of almsgiving than money, such as time and talent.
- They forgot that God was actually the beginning and end of all their prayer, fasting and almsgiving - and began to see the world revolving round themselves.
- He encouraged devotion to the Host as well as daily almsgiving.
- With its emphasis on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, Lent is a time when we are invited to leave our controlled and comfortable environment and enter a place of emptiness and need.
- In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.
- The spiritual practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting are to move us closer to God, not farther from each other.
- He was in charge of the care of church property and almsgiving.
- One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving.
- The community had to see, in public weeping, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, clear symbols of repentance so that the reclamation of the individual could be entire.
Synonyms benevolence, generosity, humanitarianism, public-spiritedness, altruism, social conscience, social concern, charity, charitableness, brotherly love, fellow feeling, magnanimity, munificence, liberality, largesse, open-handedness, bountifulness, beneficence, benignity, unselfishness, selflessness, humanity, kindness, kind-heartedness, big-heartedness, compassion, humaneness
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