Charites
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
Apuleius1201 gives the case of Charites who had intense love for her husband.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Charites describes his conversion to the love of Nature by his friend Eukrates.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
Tres Charites Veneri assistunt, dominamque sequuntur: Hincque voluptates, atque alimenta parant; Lætitiam Euphrosyne, speciosum Aglaia nitorem; Suadela est Pithus, blandus et ore lepos.
From Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various
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
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