eleëmosynary

comparative more eleëmosynary · superlative most eleëmosynary

1. rareRare spelling of eleemosynary.

   University Professorships are founded in connection with these eleëmosynary halls.

   1853 April, Oxford University Commission, The North American Review, page 384

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   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.

   1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, page 58

   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 […]

   1900, Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball, Paris in Its Splendor, page 41

   Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh posts about a linguistic, or at least orthographic, advocacy group: Diaeresis Defense, an eleëmosynary reëducation coöperative. Favorite artists: The Brontës. Least favorite artists (winners of Diaeresis Defense’s “Ersatz Dieresis Award”): Mötley Crüe. Slogan: “Two vowels, two sounds, two dots”. I believe the proper expression is “heh”. Er, assuming he’s kidding, of course […]

   2005 May 25, “The Tensor”, Tenser, said the Tensor: Diaeresis Defense

   Like the RC priest who was responsible for Knock airport, she was not above using ‘interesting’ methods to fulfil eleëmosynary ambitions.

   2006 May 5, “John Woodgate”, in sci.lang.translation (Google group) Albanian words for eyebrow