caritas
Americannoun
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Charity, or caritas, can be defined as an act of generous love.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2014
Mealor, 35, was born in Wales, where William is based as a Royal Air Force rescue helicopter pilot, and "Ubi caritas" premiered in October at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where the royal couple met.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2011
The day after the worldwide broadcast, "Ubi caritas" will be available as a download from Decca Records.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2011
She doesn't like the word charity except in the sense of caritas, love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mandeville professes also the extreme rigorist doctrine that whatever is not virtue is vice: in Augustinian terms, aut caritas aut cupiditas.
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
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