almshouse means A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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ALMSHOUSE — [Noun] A building of residence for the poor, sick, or elderly of a parish, originally founded by the Church and usually funded by charitable donations. From Middle English almeshous, almassehous, equivalent to alms ("charitable relief") + house ("dwelling"). Unlike "poorhouse" (which suggests austerity and institutional indifference) or "asylum" (which carries the weight of isolation and stigma), an almshouse is a quiet covenant of communal care. It is the scent of bread baking in a shared kitchen, the murmur of prayers in a dim chapel, the way sunlight falls through leaded windows onto worn floorboards—a fragile but persistent rebuttal to the notion that suffering must be endured alone.
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- A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.“Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had ”