eleëmosynary – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of eleëmosynary

Adjective: eleëmosynary

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore eleëmosynary
Superlativemost eleëmosynary

Sample Sentences

  • University Professorships are founded in connection with these eleëmosynary halls. [1853 April, Oxford University Commission, The North American Review, page 384:]
  • 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:]

Etymology