What's the difference between charitable and eleemosynary?

Charitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
  • (a.) Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
  • (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
  • (a.) Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
  • (2) It argues that Saudi Islamic charitable groups have tended to fund Wahhabist ideology.
  • (3) (You'll also need oxygen if you didn't already know that vital air ambulance services are funded not by our taxes but charitable donations.)
  • (4) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
  • (5) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
  • (6) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
  • (7) Urdangarin, 47, is accused along with a former business partner of creaming off €6m (US$6.75m) in public funds from contracts awarded to Noos, a charitable foundation which he chaired.
  • (8) Speakers included a physician, a consultant in genitourinary medicine, and a representative from the Terence Higgins Trust -- a charitable body set up to help people with AIDS.
  • (9) "Financial aid for this group was usually provided from London under the pretext of charitable donations.
  • (10) For services to Charitable Fundraising and to the community in Northern Ireland.
  • (11) In 2010 Becht transferred £110m to his charitable trust, which donates to charities such as Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children.
  • (12) For charitable services to Hope House Children's Hospice, Wrexham.
  • (13) He has been personally involved since the 2010 World Cup in a charitable project which uses sport to encourage solidarity amongst people of different backgrounds with the central theme that the colour of a person's skin does not matter; they can all play together as a team.
  • (14) Three days ago, accompanying her husband on his accident-prone American visit, Sarah Brown made a speech, little-noted in Britain, to the Clinton Global Initiative, a charitable and lobbying organisation for liberal causes headed by Bill Clinton.
  • (15) Why are we only finding out about the logistical horrors of HS2 because of campaigns for information by charitable organisations?
  • (16) Instead, it comes down to how prepared donors and others are to disrupt the current development model; how prepared we all are to smash the “ charitable industrial complex ”, as Peter Buffet once called it.
  • (17) Isaacs said that the JI Charitable Trust was a passive investor in Smythson through Kelso Place, the private equity group that helped coordinate the purchase.
  • (18) He also helped to organise a Woodcraft group, the local Gingerbread group, a charitable furniture scheme and the local credit union.
  • (19) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
  • (20) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.

Eleemosynary


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
  • (a.) Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
  • (a.) Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
  • (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Setting the stage for these recommendations was a broad definition of charitable services that included costs for delivering services to indigents and for providing community services to fulfill the hospital's charitable, religious, educational, research, or eleemosynary purposes.