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Meaning of limosna



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

limosna
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It means gift, donation, obolus, help, charity, donation. What is given to another who is in need and without expecting anything in return. What is given to a beggar or needy.

  



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furoya

Well, gift, money, which is given for charity to meet the needs of those who can't do it by themselves. Medieval Latin eleemosyna took it from the Greek 949; 955; 949; 951; 956; 959; 963; 965; 957; 951; ( elehemosyne "pity" ) .

  

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ADRIANA

Donation or aid given to the needy, usually money. You mean compassion and mercy; initially stated the attitude of the merciful man, and then all the works of charity to the needy.

  

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Mario Estrella

Only I can infer that the word charity, comes from slime, dáimon Greek mythology, who was the son of the goddess Eris, and representing the hunger...

  










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