charitable
Pertaining to charity.
Adjective
- Pertaining to charity.
- Kind, generous.
- 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...
- 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. - 2017 April...
- Having a purpose or character of a charity.
Origin
From Old French charitable.
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charitableness charitable organisation charitable organization charitable purpose charitable trust charitably noncharitable overcharitable pseudocharitable uncharitable