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to put the best construction on the words and actions of others. The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Self-love. [Obs.] Shak.

Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.

oo great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

An act of charity. Acts ix. 36.

To keep steady; to steady, morally. 'T is charity must ballast the heart. Hammond.

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

An act of kindness; good done; charity given.

n invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. [Prov. Eng.]

Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

ts enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.

Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Prov. xi. 2. All but. See under All. -- But and if, but if; an attempt on the part o…

ass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.

Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; elemosynary; as, a charitable institution.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.