charitable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French charitable.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
charitable (comparative more charitable, superlative most charitable)
- Pertaining to charity.
- Kind, generous.
- 1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
- St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!
- 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Pakistan can sometimes be a cruel environment, its residents caught between the dual pressures of poverty and violence. Yet it is also a place of great kindness, with a strong culture of charitable giving.
- Having a purpose or character of a charity.
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Translations[edit]
pertaining to charity
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kind, generous
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having a purpose or character of a charity
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French charitable, from charité.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
charitable (plural charitables)
- charitable (all senses)
Further reading[edit]
- “charitable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.