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charity 1. a. the giving of help, money, food, etc., to those in need b. (as modifier): a charity show 2. a. an institution or organization set up to provide help, money, etc., to those in need b. (as modifier): charity funds 3. the help, money, etc., given to the needy; alms
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Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity --Aunt Charity, as everybody called her. 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. In the privacy of a four-wheeler, on her way to a charity cottage (one of a row) which by the exiguity of its dimensions and the simplicity of its accommodation, might well have been devised in kindness as a place of training for the still more straitened circumstances of the grave, she was forced to hid from her own child a blush of remorse and shame. |
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