Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One dependent on alms for support.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person supported by charity or public provision.
- noun A charitable person; a dispenser of alms. Becon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A recipient of alms.
- noun rare A giver of alms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who depends on the receipt of
alms , abeggar .
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Examples
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It's like when I snap the leash on Pirata when I go into a store where my favorite almsman is set up.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » My Exchange With Ramesh Ponnuru in The Corner 2004
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A bhikkhu and bhikkhuni, almsman and almswoman, have renounced the
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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It chanced that at that moment a poor almsman of the Bourgeois Philibert was humbly and quietly leaning on his crutches, listening with bowing head and smiling lips to the kind inquiries of his benefactor as he received his accustomed alms.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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Oh, and when I saw you so sunken, so hardened, exulting in vice as in a glory -- bravo and partner in a gambler's hell -- or, worse still, living on the plunder of miserable women, even the almsman of that vile Desmarets -- my son, my son, my lost Lizzy's son blotted out of my world for ever!
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Oh, and when I saw you so sunken, so hardened, exulting in vice as in a glory -- bravo and partner in a gambler's hell -- or, worse still, living on the plunder of miserable women, even the almsman of that vile Desmarets -- my son, my son, my lost Lizzy's son blotted out of my world for ever!
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I do not oblige to shell out a even a dime regardless of the patheticity of the almsman.
Countercurrents.org 2010
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What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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parish,almsman:John:plums northwards Magdalene:...
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #140 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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“almsman,” a mendicant monk who begs for his daily food; the feminine form is bhikkhuni: nun.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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