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char·i·ty

(chăr′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. char·i·ties

1. Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.

2. Something given to help the needy; alms.

3. An institution, organization, or fund established to help the needy.

4. Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity.

5. Indulgence or forbearance in judging others. See Synonyms at mercy.

6. often Charity Christianity The theological virtue defined as love directed first toward God but also toward oneself and one's neighbors as objects of God's love.

[Middle English charite, from Old French, Christian love, from Latin cāritās, affection, from cārus, dear; see kā- in Indo-European roots.]

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charity

(ˈtʃærɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. (Social Welfare)

a. the giving of help, money, food, etc, to those in need

b. (as modifier): a charity show.

2. (Social Welfare)

a. an institution or organization set up to provide help, money, etc, to those in need

b. (as modifier): charity funds.

3. (Social Welfare) the help, money, etc, given to the needy; alms

4. a kindly and lenient attitude towards people

5. love of one's fellow men

[C13: from Old French charite, from Latin cāritās affection, love, from cārus dear]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

char•i•ty

(ˈtʃær ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. donations or generous actions to aid the poor, ill, or helpless.

2. a charitable act or work.

3. a charitable fund, foundation, or institution.

4. benevolent feeling, esp. toward those in need: to do something out of charity.

5. leniency in judging others; forbearance.

6. alms.

7. Christian love; agape.

[1125–75; Middle English charite < Old French < Latin cāritās=cār(us) dear + -itās -ity]

Charity

charity

noun

1. charitable organization, fund, movement, trust, endowment The National Trust is a registered charity.

2. donations, help, relief, gift, contributions, assistance, hand-out, philanthropy, alms-giving, benefaction, largesse or largess My mum was very proud. She wouldn't accept charity.
donations selfishness, meanness, stinginess, miserliness

3. kindness, love, pity, humanity, affection, goodness, goodwill, compassion, generosity, indulgence, bounty, altruism, benevolence, fellow feeling, benignity, bountifulness, tenderheartedness He had no sense of right and wrong, no charity, no humanity.
kindness hatred, intolerance, malice, ill will

Quotations
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity" Bible: 1 Corinthians
"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does" [Simone Weil The New York Notebook]
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith; so that I could remove mountains; and have not charity, I am nothing" Bible: 1 Corinthians
"Charity begins at home, but should not end there" [Thomas Fuller Gnomologia]
"Charity sufferreth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up... Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth" Bible: 1 Corinthians
"Charity shall cover the multitude of sins" Bible: 1 Peter
"He gives the poor man twice as much good who gives quickly" [Publilius Syrus]

Proverbs
"Charity begins at home"

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

charity

noun

1. Something given to a charity or cause:

alms, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, donation, gift, handout, offering, subscription.

2. Kindly, charitable interest in others:

altruism, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, charitableness, goodwill, grace, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, philanthropy.

3. Kind, forgiving, or compassionate treatment of or disposition toward others:

clemency, grace, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy.

4. Forbearing or lenient treatment:

charitableness, forbearance, indulgence, lenience, leniency, lenity, tolerance, toleration.

Translations

صَدَقَه، إحْسان، مَحَبَّةُ الغَيْرمُؤَسَّسَةٌ خَيْرِيَّةمُؤَسَّسَه خَيْرِيَّه

charitacharitativní spolekdobročinnost

velgørenhedvelgørenhedsorganisationgodgørenhed

Barmherzigkeit Gnadenbrot Nächstenliebe Wohlfahrtseinrichtung Wohltätigkeitsorganisation

φιλανθρωπία αγαθοεργία δωρεά

caridad institución benéfica

hyväntekeväisyysLempi

charité aumône bienfaisance

dobrotvorna organizacija

jótékonysági intézmény

góîverk, kærleikurlíknarstarfsemi, hjálparstofnun

beneficenza benevolo carit...carità caritatevole

慈善団体

자선

geraširdiškaigeraširdiškasgeraširdiškumaslabdaralabdaringai

labdarībalabdarības iestādežēlastības dāvana

liefdadigheidsinstelling

veldedighet nestekjærlighet veldedig organisasjon

instytucja dobroczynna

caridade

благотворительное общество Любовь

charitatívny spolokdobročinnosť

dobrodelna ustanovadobrodelnostmiloščina

välgörenhet

การกุศล

yardım derneğihayırseverlik

tổ chức từ thiện

仁慈慈善慈善团体慈善机构

charity

[ˈtʃærɪtɪ]

A. N

1. (= goodwill) → caridad f
out of charity → por caridad
charity begins at home → la caridad bien entendida empieza por uno mismo

2. (= financial relief) → obras fpl benéficas; (= alms) → limosnas fpl
all proceeds go to charity → todo lo recaudado se destinará a obras benéficas
he gave the money to charity → donó el dinero a una organización benéfica
to live on charity → vivir de la caridad
to raffle sth for charity → rifar algo para fines benéficos

3. (= organization) → organización f benéfica

4. (= act) it would be a charity if → sería una obra de caridad si ...

B. CPD charity appeal N → cuestación f para obras benéficas
charity shop N (Brit) tienda de artículos de segunda mano que dedica su recaudación a causas benéficas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

charity

[ˈtʃærɪti]

(= virtue) → charité f
charity begins at home → charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même

(= organization) → association f caritative, association f de bienfaisance
He gave the money to charity → Il a donné l'argent à une association caritative.

(= alms) → charité f

modif [function, concert, ball, dinner, match] → (au profit d'une œuvre) de bienfaisancecharity shop n boutique vendant des articles d'occasion au profit d'une organisation caritativecharity work n → travail m bénévole (au profit d'une organisation caritative)

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charity

(= Christian virtue) → tätige Nächstenliebe, Barmherzigkeit f

(= tolerance, kindness) → Menschenfreundlichkeit f; for charity’s sake, out of charity → aus reiner Menschenfreundlichkeit; charity begins at home (Prov) → man muss zuerst an seine eigene Familie/sein eigenes Land etc denken

(= alms) to live on charity → von Almosen leben

(= charitable society) → Wohltätigkeitsverein m, → karitative Organisation; (= charitable purposes) → Wohlfahrt f; to work for charity → für die Wohlfahrt arbeiten; a collection for charity → eine Sammlung für wohltätige or karitative Zwecke

charity

in cpds → Wohltätigkeits-

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

charity

[ˈtʃærɪtɪ] n

a. (virtue) → carità
out of charity → per carità or misericordia
to live on charity → vivere di elemosine
charity begins at home (Proverb) → il primo prossimo è la tua famiglia

b. (organization) → opera pia, associazione f benefica
she gave all her money to charity → lasciò tutto il suo denaro in beneficenza

charity

(ˈtʃӕrəti) – plural ˈcharities – noun

1. kindness (especially in giving money to poor people). She gave clothes to the gypsies out of charity.

2. an organization set up to collect money for the needy, for medical research etc. Many charities sent money to help the victims of the disaster.

ˈcharitable adjective

1. (negative uncharitable) kind.

2. of a charity. a charitable organization.

ˈcharitably adverb

charity

→ مُؤَسَّسَةٌ خَيْرِيَّة charita velgørenhed Wohltätigkeitsorganisation φιλανθρωπία institución benéfica hyväntekeväisyys charité dobrotvorna organizacija beneficenza 慈善団体 자선 liefdadigheidsinstelling veldedighet instytucja dobroczynna caridade благотворительное общество välgörenhet การกุศล yardım derneği tổ chức từ thiện 慈善机构

charity

n. caridad; beneficencia.

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Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity --Aunt Charity, as everybody called her.

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Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

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Well, from early morning till dewy eve, when she had it out of him in the cold tub before putting him to bed, Charity and Tom were pitted against one another.

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P., the Chairman of the Governors of the Charity. She expressed herself thus warmly because she had been allowed to interview by appointment his Private Secretary - "a very polite gentleman, all in black, with a gentle, sad voice, but so very, very thin and quiet.

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The shop-boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding Noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of 'leathers,' 'charity,' and the like; and Noah had bourne them without reply.

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"Having received the same into his hand, he asked whether they were all in charity with him, and without any enmity or rancour.

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No one offered to assist the sufferer, although many said it ought to be done; some spoke of sending for those who monopolized the official charity of the city; many, having satisfied their curiosity, and finding that the moment for action was arriving, quietly withdrew from a trouble that would interfere with their comforts or their business--while a few felt an impulse to aid the man, but hesitated in being foremost in doing that which would be honourable to their feelings, but might not accord with their condition, or might seem as the ostentatious display of unusual benevolence.

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But if you, fair sir, out of your kind charity would be pleased to go a matter of two bow-shots out of your way, you would do me such a service as I could scarce repay."

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He scorned the provisions made in the name of charity for the city's dependents.

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Excuse me, excuse me, but I owe this money to the charity fund, -- a deposit which I promised to pay this morning."

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I cannot but think, with a view to the principle and its tendency to elevate or depress the character of the industrious classes, that a Public Charity is immeasurably better than a Private Foundation, no matter how munificently the latter may be endowed.

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Well, among other things she told me that, whereas you are not a kinsman of mine, that she is my nearest relative; that you have no right whatever to enter into family relations with us; and that it is wrong and shameful for me to be living upon your earnings and charity. Also, she said that I must have forgotten all that she did for me, though thereby she saved both myself and my mother from starvation, and gave us food and drink; that for two and a half years we caused her great loss; and, above all things, that she excused us what we owed her.

Noun	1.	charity - a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) foundation - an institution supported by an endowment philanthropic foundation - a foundation that provides funds for science or art or education or religion or relief from disease etc. private foundation - a charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the public public charity - a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)
	2.	charity - a kindly and lenient attitude toward people brotherly love benevolence - an inclination to do kind or charitable acts supernatural virtue, theological virtue - according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues
	3.	charity - an activity or gift that benefits the public at large giving, gift - the act of giving handout - giving money or food or clothing to a needy person zakat - the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship; "the zakat is earmarked for the poor and disabled"
	4.	charity - pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae, Greek valerian polemonium - any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions
	5.	charity - an institution set up to provide help to the needy institution, establishment - an organization founded and united for a specific purpose community chest - a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare soup kitchen - a place where food is dispensed to the needy