"alms-deed" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:",
          "text": "Murder is thy alms-deed; petitioner for blood thou ne'er putt'st back.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1775, Luis (de Granada), An Exhortation to Alms-deeds, page 84:",
          "text": "Let us put in the same scale the second excellence of alms-deeds, which is, that as it brings men to a nearer resemblance with God, so it renders them dear to him, and familiar with his divine majesty, because like to him:",
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          "ref": "1885, Sir Richard F. Burton (trans), Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes: Volume IV:",
          "text": "A certain King once made proclamation to the people of his realm saying, \"If any of you give alms of aught, I will verily and assuredly cut off his hand;\" wherefore all the people abstained from alms-deed, and none could give anything to any one.",
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        "Alternative form of almsdeed"
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  "word": "alms-deed"
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          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1775, Luis (de Granada), An Exhortation to Alms-deeds, page 84:",
          "text": "Let us put in the same scale the second excellence of alms-deeds, which is, that as it brings men to a nearer resemblance with God, so it renders them dear to him, and familiar with his divine majesty, because like to him:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1885, Sir Richard F. Burton (trans), Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes: Volume IV:",
          "text": "A certain King once made proclamation to the people of his realm saying, \"If any of you give alms of aught, I will verily and assuredly cut off his hand;\" wherefore all the people abstained from alms-deed, and none could give anything to any one.",
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        "Alternative form of almsdeed"
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