charity
a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,872 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,745 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals)
- a kindly and lenient attitude toward people also: brotherly love
- an activity or gift that benefits the public at large
- pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers also: Jacob's ladder, Greek valerian, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae
- an institution set up to provide help to the needy
charity in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I was my own man again, rescued by charity.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Charity covers a multitude of sins which are committed in her name.
Crankisms · Lisle de Vaux Matthewman · Chapter 1
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She had done some secretarial work for a charity of which the duchess was patroness.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Yet the work of Reconstruction, if admitted to be feasible at all, demands little but common sense and Christian charity.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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The elders of the settlement communed with him freely and in charity; but the voice of conciliation and alliance came too late.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish · James Fenimore Cooper · Chapter 1