almsful

English

Etymology

alms +‎ -ful

Adjective

almsful (comparative more almsful, superlative most almsful)

1. (archaic) Likely to give alms; charitable.
   • 1873, Godfrey Egremont, Poems and songs, page 45:

     A pure, warm-hearted woman, blamelessly She liv'd her noble life ; her almsful soul No truce of giving knew ; she made the days Happier for all.

   • 1893, William James Ashley, An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory, page 136:

     Many a testator would have echoed the request of Fastolf that his goods might be so faithfully distributed in " almsful deeds and charitable works " that he might obtain "the more hasty deliverance of his soul from the painful flames of the fire of Purgatory."

   • 1975, Quarterly Review of Literature - Volume 19, Issues 3-4, page 20:

     In a few moments she passed nearby the penniless man, at whom she hardly glanced, — but saw enough, however, to be seized by a melancholia, and to produce a purse from a fold of her grey-silk muff, for her little heart is almsful and commpassionate.

Anagrams

• Fullams, fullams