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ALMS , the giving of See also:

relief, and the relief given, whether in goods or See also:money, to the poor, particularly applied to the' charity bestowed under a sense of religious See also:obligation (see CHARITY AND CHARITIES). The word in O. Eng. was aelmysse, and is derived through the See also:Teutonic See also:adaptation (cf. the See also:modern Ger. almosen ) of the Latinized See also:form of the Gr. EXei ovuvi7, compassion or See also:mercy, from EXsos, pity. The See also:English word " eleemosynary," that which is given in the way of alms, charitable, gratuitous, derives See also:direct from the See also:Greek. " Alms " is often, like " riches," wrongly taken as a plural word.

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