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1. A foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals)
    
2. A kindly and lenient attitude toward people
   - brotherly love
    
3. An activity or gift that benefits the public at large
    
4. Pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers
   - Jacob's ladder, Greek valerian, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae
    
5. An institution set up to provide help to the needy

Derived forms: charities

Type of: benevolence, establishment, foundation, gift, giving, institution, polemonium, supernatural virtue, theological virtue

Encyclopedia: Charity, Sisters of, of Providence