charitable
adjective
generous in donations or gifts to relieve the needs of indigent, ill, or helpless people, or of animals.
charitableness
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a word derived from
charitable.
Example Sentences
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It is reasonable to assume that the returns would refute many of his assertions about his net worth, his charitableness and his supposed business wizardry.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
But mentally he was so quick, eager, receptive, that he seemed a pioneer, an enthusiast, a saint; his quickness passing for insight, his eagerness for a passionate love of progress, his receptivity for charitableness.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
The wholesome morality, the charitableness and homely piety apparent throughout, give the narrative a charm denied to many works of greater literary pretension.
From Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
"My dear Therese, unless you carry charitableness to the length of giving me to drink, you will see me perish of thirst under your eyes before ever the canaille has a chance to finish me."
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
As a matter of fact, the determinist creed, with all its professions of charitableness towards the transgressor, and while pretending to soothe us by absolving us from responsibility for wrong-doing, fatally paralyses our endeavours.
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer
