Synonyms for Alms:
n.
charitable, community service, community chest, collection box, cause, aid, donate. contribution, gift, give, handout, donation, offering, benefaction, charity, subscription, beneficence. •alms (noun)alms-giving.
•charity (noun)
gift, relief, donation, handout.
•gift (noun)
donation.
•handout (noun)
offering, aid, contribution, benefaction, donation, charity.
Other synonyms:
collection box, charitable, donate, community chest, gift, community service. cause, donation, subscription, handout, beneficence. benefaction, charity. contribution, relief. aid, offering. give. •Other relevant words:
contribution, aid, charity, charitable, beneficence, donate, give, offering, benefaction, donation, subscription, gift, handout, relief.
Usage examples for alms
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One day Ignatius went to Didacus to ask for alms in order to assist some poor people. – The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by Saint Ignatius Loyola
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When these also had passed by, it chanced that a man of his table companions, advanced in years, who had been deprived of all his possessions and had nothing except such things as a beggar possesses, and was asking alms from the soldiers, passed by Psammenitos the son of Amasis and the Egyptians who were sitting in the suburb of the city: and when Psammenitos saw him he uttered a great cry of lamentation, and he called his companion by name and beat himself upon the head. – The History Of Herodotus Volume 1(of 2) by Herodotus
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Juan became so poor at last that he was forced to ask alms from his brother, or what was only the same thing, a loan. – Philippine Folk-Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, Laura Watson Benedict