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almsgiver

/ahlmz-giv-er, ahmz-/US // ˈɑlmzˌgɪv ər, ˈɑmz- //

施舍者,施主,救济者,施舍人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who gives alms.

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Examples

  • There was once a lady, and there never was such an almsgiver as she was.

  • She does evil with the easy, graceful air of an almsgiver distributing charity, and she does good with the stealth of a criminal!

  • The world, he held, owed him a living without the labour of his hands, and to him "the world" was Louis the perpetual almsgiver.

  • Accordingly, one day he visited John the Almsgiver, with his attendants, and peremptorily demanded his money.

  • He was a liberal almsgiver, and at the time of his death had nothing that was his own.