"eleëmosynary" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853 April, Oxford University Commission, The North American Review, page 384",
          "text": "University Professorships are founded in connection with these eleëmosynary halls.",
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        {
          "ref": "1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, page 58",
          "text": "He was led about by a brisk, middle-aged woman, in straw hat and wooden shoes; and a little barefooted boy, with clear, blue eyes and flaxen hair, held a tattered hat in his hand, in which he collected eleëmosynary sous.",
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          "ref": "1900, Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball, Paris in Its Splendor, page 41",
          "text": "The following statistics, for which I am indebted to that encyclopædic storehouse of practical information, Baedeker’s “Paris”, will give the reader some idea of the importance of the eleëmosynary work undertaken by the sub-committee (Assistance Publique) of the council entrusted with the administration of the Paris hospitals: “The twenty hospitals of Paris have an aggregate of upwards of twelve thousand beds. The number of patients annually discharged includes forty-five to fifty thousand men, thirty-six to forty thousand women, and sixteen to eighteen thousand children; the average annual deaths in the hospitals include about seven […]",
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          "ref": "2005 May 25, “The Tensor”, Tenser, said the Tensor: Diaeresis Defense",
          "text": "Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh posts about a linguistic, or at least orthographic, advocacy group:\nDiaeresis Defense, an eleëmosynary reëducation coöperative.\nFavorite artists: The Brontës.\nLeast favorite artists (winners of Diaeresis Defense’s “Ersatz Dieresis Award”): Mötley Crüe.\nSlogan: “Two vowels, two sounds, two dots”.\nI believe the proper expression is “heh”. Er, assuming he’s kidding, of course […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 5, “John Woodgate”, in sci.lang.translation (Google group) Albanian words for eyebrow",
          "text": "Like the RC priest who was responsible for Knock airport, she was not above using ‘interesting’ methods to fulfil eleëmosynary ambitions.",
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  "word": "eleëmosynary"
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      "form": "more eleëmosynary",
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          "ref": "1853 April, Oxford University Commission, The North American Review, page 384",
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        },
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          "ref": "1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, page 58",
          "text": "He was led about by a brisk, middle-aged woman, in straw hat and wooden shoes; and a little barefooted boy, with clear, blue eyes and flaxen hair, held a tattered hat in his hand, in which he collected eleëmosynary sous.",
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          "ref": "1900, Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball, Paris in Its Splendor, page 41",
          "text": "The following statistics, for which I am indebted to that encyclopædic storehouse of practical information, Baedeker’s “Paris”, will give the reader some idea of the importance of the eleëmosynary work undertaken by the sub-committee (Assistance Publique) of the council entrusted with the administration of the Paris hospitals: “The twenty hospitals of Paris have an aggregate of upwards of twelve thousand beds. The number of patients annually discharged includes forty-five to fifty thousand men, thirty-six to forty thousand women, and sixteen to eighteen thousand children; the average annual deaths in the hospitals include about seven […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005 May 25, “The Tensor”, Tenser, said the Tensor: Diaeresis Defense",
          "text": "Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh posts about a linguistic, or at least orthographic, advocacy group:\nDiaeresis Defense, an eleëmosynary reëducation coöperative.\nFavorite artists: The Brontës.\nLeast favorite artists (winners of Diaeresis Defense’s “Ersatz Dieresis Award”): Mötley Crüe.\nSlogan: “Two vowels, two sounds, two dots”.\nI believe the proper expression is “heh”. Er, assuming he’s kidding, of course […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 5, “John Woodgate”, in sci.lang.translation (Google group) Albanian words for eyebrow",
          "text": "Like the RC priest who was responsible for Knock airport, she was not above using ‘interesting’ methods to fulfil eleëmosynary ambitions.",
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