Word Meanings - ALMSGIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A giver of alms.

Related words: (words related to ALMSGIVER)

• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• TERGIVERSATE
  To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. Bailey. (more info) to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere
• LAWGIVER
  One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
• TERGIVERSATION
  1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall. 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel,
• ALMSGIVER
  A giver of alms.