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alms <alms; alms> N

alms
صدقات
alms REL
حَسَنَة
alms REL
صَدَقَة

give alms VB

ask for alms VB

give alms or charity VB

pay the alms tax VB

ask for alms or charity VB

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There he lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on alms, the excess of which he distributed among the poor.
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The priest was responsible for seeing that no beggars came to ask the worshipers for alms.
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I had earned the money by reciting alms.
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Instead of becoming better citizens, most become parasites reliant upon alms from the millionaire.
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Yearly the students from classes 8 to 10 visit old age homes and provide alms to the poor.
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Alms houses were built in the 19th century along with a village school.
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The group goes through the street single-file, chanting, and sympathizers come down and fill their alms bowls.
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They knock on the door, and ask the man inside for alms.
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Its name was inspired from a time when many indigenous worshipers would give their alms in the form of cocoa beans.
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The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitant householders not receiving alms, which amounted to about 130 voters in 1831.
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