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alms
/ɑmz/
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What does alms mean?
noun
- Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
- plural of ALM
proper noun
- Initialism of American Le Mans Series, an enclosed-wheel enclosed-cockpit four-wheel custom-built prototype sports car racing series.
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proper noun
- Initialism of Asian Le Mans Series, an enclosed-wheel enclosed-cockpit four-wheel custom-built prototype sports car racing series.
- A surname from German.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɑmz/
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These beasts above-said they let take when they be young, and nourish them so with alms, as many as they may find.
They pounce on this one sentence, “which gave much alms to the people,” because it serves their assertion that merit precedes grace.
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Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?
I have seen one who robbed her husband wholesale, that, as she told her confessor, she might distribute the more liberal alms.
A gentleman residing in Marseilles had seen him while soliciting alms perform most astonishing feats of memory, and brought him to Paris.