Definition of Charitable

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Charitable

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.

Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.

Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.

Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.

Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.

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Charitable Quotations

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
Joseph Addison

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Paul Samuelson

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
David Rockefeller

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
Mitchell Baker

Charitable Translations

charitable in Dutch is liefdadigheids-, charitatief

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