charity

«charity» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: kindness, love — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

kindness, love

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Goodwill toward others, or a kind act done freely for someone in need. tree →

how it differs from today

Today charity usually means an organisation that collects money, or giving money to the poor. The old sense is love and kindness toward others, and all three sentences use that old sense, including "charity school" and "of your charity."

examples

• It's pure charity that she is here at all. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• In a charity school, among the children, sat a little Jewish girl. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• ‘All hail!’ said the girl. ‘I have come, of your charity, to ask your help!’ (The Pink Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

charity

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 20 (Torah 0, tales 20, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Debt advice charities give free, private help to make a plan for paying debts back at a pace the family can manage.
• A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after a referral from someone like a school or a doctor.
• When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.
• A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives.
• Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «charity» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.