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Definition of Public charity
1. Noun. A charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Charity
Literary usage of Public charity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Relief and Private Charity by Josephine Shaw Lowell (1884)
"I think it is one evil of public charity that the poor, who are not very accurate
arithmeticians, are apt to overrate the power of a public charity, ..."
2. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... and had not public charity provided for these poor creatures, whose number
was exceeding great, and in all cases of this nature must be so, ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"Every charity which is extensive in its object may, in a certain sense, be called
a public charity. Nor will a mere act of incorporation change a charity ..."
4. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"General principles of public charity. .... public charity in Mass. (5 same 1883:
xlv-xvii.) . Govs. assault on state charities; special accusations agst. ..."
5. Modern Methods of Charity: An Account of the Systems of Relief, Public and by Charles Richmond Henderson (1904)
"The commission regarded the aid given in homes by public charity as subject to
... Outdoor relief by public charity organizations is to be kept within the ..."
6. Modern Methods of Charity: An Account of the Systems of Relief, Public and by Charles Richmond Henderson (1904)
"The commission regarded the aid given in homes by public charity as subject to
... Outdoor relief by public charity organizations is to be kept within the ..."
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