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Charity

Love; universal benevolence; good will.

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Benevolence 76% connected

The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Foundation 76% connected

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Giving 76% connected

of Give

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Institution 76% connected

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Polemonium 76% connected

A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.

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Academy noun · 78% connection

a school for special training

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Assimilator noun · 78% connection

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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Classroom noun · 78% connection

a room in a school where lessons take place

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College noun · 78% connection

an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

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Head noun · 78% connection

the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

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Head teacher noun · 78% connection

the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

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Learner noun · 78% connection

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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Amoret noun · 78% connection

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks.

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Amorous adjective · 78% connection

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

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Amour noun · 78% connection

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

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Apple noun · 78% connection

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), b…

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Benevolent adjective · 78% connection

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; di…

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Condignity noun · 78% connection

Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

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Coquetry noun · 78% connection

Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

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Druery noun · 78% connection

Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.

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Eros noun · 78% connection

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodi…

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Erotical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

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Expand verb · 78% connection

To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to…

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Extensive adjective · 78% connection

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…

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Familist noun · 78% connection

One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that…

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Favor noun · 78% connection

A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from just…

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Glow verb · 78% connection

To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love…

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Good superl. · 78% connection

Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or…

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Goodness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a so…

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Gravitation noun · 78% connection

That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also att…

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