Charitable: Definition and part of speech

Charitable

  1. a. Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.
  2. a. Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
  3. a. Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
  4. a. Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
  5. a. Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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