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CHARITABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of love and generosity
Example:
a charitable trust
Classified under:
Similar:
beneficent; benevolent; eleemosynary; philanthropic (generous in assistance to the poor)
Also:
generous (willing to give and share unstintingly)
Antonym:
uncharitable (lacking love and generosity)
Derivation:
charitableness (generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
Example:
a large-hearted mentor
Synonyms:
benevolent; charitable; good-hearted; kindly; large-hearted; openhearted; sympathetic
Classified under:
Similar:
kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)
Derivation:
charitableness (generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or characterized by charity
Example:
a charitable foundation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
charity (an activity or gift that benefits the public at large)
Derivation:
charitableness (generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate))
Context examples:
So taught by love and sorrow, Jo wrote her little stories, and sent them away to make friends for themselves and her, finding it a very charitable world to such humble wanderers, for they were kindly welcomed, and sent home comfortable tokens to their mother, like dutiful children whom good fortune overtakes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Good evening, madam; I sent to you for a charitable purpose.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To fall in with each other on such an errand as this, thought Emma; to meet in a charitable scheme; this will bring a great increase of love on each side.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Among the planets in your eleventh house of friendship, fun events, and humanitarian and charitable efforts, is Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, a planet that will bring many people to you now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He did not know that the Transcontinental had been staggering along precariously for years, that it was a fourth-rater, or tenth-rater, without standing, with a crazy circulation that partly rested on petty bullying and partly on patriotic appealing, and with advertisements that were scarcely more than charitable donations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Didn't I know it! But how little you think of the rightful umbleness of a person in my station, Master Copperfield! Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys; and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable, establishment. They taught us all a deal of umbleness—not much else that I know of, from morning to night. We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters. And we had such a lot of betters! Father got the monitor-medal by being umble. So did I. Father got made a sexton by being umble. He had the character, among the gentlefolks, of being such a well-behaved man, that they were determined to bring him in. “Be umble, Uriah,” says father to me, “and you'll get on. It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best. Be umble,” says father, “and you'll do!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was brought up a dependant; educated in a charitable institution.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Upon the whole, Emma left her with such softened, charitable feelings, as made her look around in walking home, and lament that Highbury afforded no young man worthy of giving her independence; nobody that she could wish to scheme about for her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Saturn will be in your friendship, hopes, and wishes sector, a time when you may help a friend going through a rough patch or give your time to a humanitarian, charitable, political, club, or community effort that aligns with your beliefs.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
