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Definition of Almes
1. alme [n] - See also: alme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Almes
Literary usage of Almes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... more Christian like to line, •*• And for a zeale to helpe the poore, thine
almes daily giue. Let gift no glorie looke, nor euill possesse thy minde ..."
2. Select English Works of John Wyclif by John Wycliffe (1871)
"And to )>er speche of dymes, siben J>ei ben almes, bei ben pure almes, and not
ellus but ... on almes of \>e peple, bat was pure almes al if it were dett, ..."
3. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"Let gift no glorie looke, nor euill possesse thy minde: And for a truth these
profites three, through almes shalt thou finde. ..."
4. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1894)
"The second branch of the rule was followed in almes v. almes (1796), 2 Hagg.
(Appx.) 155, where administration de bonis non was granted to a person entitled ..."
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