Charites
Americanplural noun
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In September, Catholic Charites used $476.99 in Neediest Cases money to buy Daysi a new bed to replace the dilapidated one she had been using.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2015
Quia sola videris Quo niueae Charites, quo corpore Delia virgo Pingitur, et iusto si sit pro teste vetustas.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard
How a young man came and declared the miserable death of Lepolemus and his wife Charites.
From The Golden Asse by Adlington, William, fl. 1566
I blandas inter Charites, mystamque saluta Musarum quemvis, si tibi lector erit.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
On a day Lepolemus went to the chase with Thrasillus, to hunt for Goates, for his wife Charites desired him earnestly to meddle with no other beasts, which were of more fierce and wilde nature.
From The Golden Asse by Adlington, William, fl. 1566
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