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Charitable

adjective

Relating to or characterized by charity.

Full of love and generosity. "A charitable trust"

Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity. Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic. "Kindly criticism" , "A kindly act" , "Sympathetic words" , "A large-hearted mentor"

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"Charitable" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a place like this in a skirt with a train," was the more charitable thought of ...

— Zibeline, Complete • Phillipe de Massa

... Fraenkischer Kurier for October 13th, 1915, the Burgomaster of Nuremberg announced that the voluntary reduction of salaries agreed to by the municipal officials of that city had resulted in 264,000 marks (L13,000) going to charitable funds. The author could cite dozens of similar instances, but it would interest him most of all to know whether any town in the British Isles can show a better record than Nuremberg, with ...

— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith

... passed eight or ten days, my master taking the air every day with the most perfect ease of a man of fashion, and returning home to feast on the contributions of the charitable, levied by poor Lazaro. Whereas my former masters declined to feed me, this one expected that I should maintain him. But I was much more sorry for him than angry at him, and with all his poverty I found greater satisfaction in serving ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... of similar condescensions—as I used to call them—on Minna's part, had repeatedly led to revolting scenes, and only her peculiar conception of her professional position and the needs it involved had made a charitable interpretation possible. ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... charitable and so piteous, She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it ...

— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders

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