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CHARITY

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charity substantiv

1. caritate; dragoste de semeni;

(prov.) charity begins at home mai aproape dinţii decât părinţii, cămaşa e mai aproape de piele decât haina.

2. milostenie; (operă de) binefacere, pomană.

3. plural instituţii sau opere filantropice / de binefacere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

You may be touched by a friend’s gesture and care for you, or you may work on a charity.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I apprehend, if you come to that, said Mr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, that you've been in a wrong position altogether, and mistook this for a charity school.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most upright female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But if you, fair sir, out of your kind charity would be pleased to go a matter of two bow-shots out of your way, you would do me such a service as I could scarce repay.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Extend that charity to me.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Mrs. Hummel told him she was poor, and had tried to cure baby herself, but now it was too late, and she could only ask him to help the others and trust to charity for his pay.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It could be a wedding, a party, or charity benefit, as some examples.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill; she wanted no explanations, she wanted only to have her thoughts to herself—and as for understanding any thing he wrote, she was sure she was incapable of it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Poor thing! he was now alluding to Mrs. Micawber's letter, and we were standing side by side comparing the two; it will be a charity to write to her, at all events, and tell her that we will not fail to see Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You can buy new furniture or declutter your home and give things you no longer need to a charity.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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