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ALMS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 718 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALMS , the giving of
relief
 , and the
relief
  given, whether in goods or
money
 , to the poor, particularly applied to the' charity bestowed under a sense of religious
obligation
  (see CHARITY AND CHARITIES). The word in O. Eng. was aelmysse, and is derived through the
Teutonic
 
adaptation
  (cf. the
modern
  Ger. almosen ) of the Latinized form of the Gr. EXei ovuvi7, compassion or mercy, from EXsos, pity. The
English
  word " eleemosynary," that which is given in the way of alms, charitable, gratuitous, derives
direct
  from the
Greek
 . " Alms " is often, like " riches," wrongly taken as a plural word.


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