See almsdeed on Wiktionary
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"english": "Truly, said the good man, an ye might live as long as the world might endure, ne might ye have done so great an almsdeed as this.",
"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII, Chapter viii leaf 337r:",
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"text": "Many kinds of good deeds are there ; but the apostle exhorts us to one of them, that is almsdeed, and saith that we ought to give alms to destitute men, but, as the holy Psalmist David said, distribute it so that every needy man that craves it may receive something thereof.",
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"ref": "1995, Viator - Volume 26, page 150:",
"text": "Mindful of his overall contention that women's teaching activities should be restricted to the private sphere, he concludes that the way in which women are to fulfil the “almsdeed” of teaching, is to follow the biblical advice: “when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee.\" (Matt. 6.2)",
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