almsgiving
- n making voluntary contributions to aid the poor
- As for the Roman Catholic Church, Dolci is now a "lapsed Catholic," and he blames the breach on the "lack of a tradition of charity, even on the level of almsgiving" of the .
- Hinduism and Buddhism encouraged almsgiving but reconciled themselves to poverty by suggesting that it is a requisite for man's prime goal: the enrichment of spirit instead of .
- In a Western culture where almsgiving happens in the confines of a church or synagogue, this may have seemed odd.