Literary notes about eleemosynary (AI summary)
In literature, "eleemosynary" is employed to evoke a sense of charity and institutional benevolence while often highlighting the complex interplay between pride and the need for external generosity. Writers use the term to describe organizations dedicated to public aid—such as hospitals, libraries, and colleges ([1], [2], [3])—as well as to characterize personal gestures of charity that may be tinged with reluctance or hidden motivations ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, its application frequently serves a critical edge, prompting readers to consider the implications of receiving or dispensing charitable aid within broader social and economic structures ([7], [8], [9]).
- ( c ) To public libraries, since they are for the most part eleemosynary institutions, and hence entitled to charity.
— from Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901 - Eleemosynary corporations are chiefly hospitals, or colleges in the university.
— from Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir - The educational and eleemosynary institutions of New York are on a colossal scale.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 03, April to September, 1866 by Various - At the same time she wished to conceal a too obviously eleemosynary intent.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant - He returned it, saying that he could not, though steeped in poverty, accept chance eleemosynary aid.
— from Marion Fay: A Novel by Anthony Trollope - Here one or more of the priests of Buddha were guiding their little canoe on its diurnal eleemosynary excursion.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson - The case before the court is clearly that of an eleemosynary corporation.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple - The growth of such principles could not be forced, and, if they grew at all, they would do better without the crutches of eleemosynary aid.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins - This fact may be ascribed to altered social conditions which led to a great multiplication of eleemosynary institutions.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
