eleemosynary in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for eleemosynary in the English»Italian Dictionary

eleemosynary [Brit ˌɛlɪiːˈmɒsɪnəri, ˌɛlɪiːˈmɒzɪnəri, Am ˌɛləˈmɑsnəri] ADJ

1. eleemosynary (pertaining to alms):

eleemosynary

di elemosina, di carità

2. eleemosynary (dependent on alms):

eleemosynary

che vive di elemosina

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I know many of you have already made impressive announcements, those of you engaged in business or on the boards of an enterprise or eleemosynary or educational institutions.

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Think how wonderfully magnanimous the donors will feel with this kind of eleemosynary tangibility.

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Whole swaths of life, from education and health care to commercial enterprises and eleemosynary concerns, are now overseen by those who operate the levers of power.

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It came down to one adjective were rarely hear or see today: eleemosynary.

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But these eleemosynary endeavours are double-barrelled.

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When a church collects money to then redistribute to the poor in its neighborhood, it performs an eleemosynary function.

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The club continues to maintain traditions on the verge of extinction more out of inertia than from eleemosynary anthropological historicity.

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In my view, orthodox churches deserve their charitable status in view of the numerous eleemosynary works, but not the "mushroom churches".

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In those days, we lived in the era of freebies, state largesse and eleemosynary economics of subsidised medicare, education, transport, among others.

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At the greatest possible distance from the church, beyond the precinct of the monastery, was the eleemosynary department.

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