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What does almsgiving mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of voluntarily giving alms, of making donations to the poor, charity.
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Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria lived on her dower lands at Le Mans, France, where she was famed for her almsgiving.
There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Of course, there are other forms of almsgiving than money, such as time and talent.
In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.
Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.

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