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widow's mite
noun
- a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41鈥44.
widow's mite
noun
- a small contribution given by a person who has very little
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of widow's mite1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of widow's mite1
Example Sentences
She reminds herself of what she knows as 鈥渢he widow鈥檚 mite鈥 and of Debbie, the woman who gave all that she could.
One group called themselves the Ladies Mite Society, after the Bible story of the widow鈥檚 mite.
But I am simply presenting this book as an humble race defender, in connection with the body of race defenders, and if my theory in this book is accepted as one of the little fingers of this splendid body, I will feel that I have accomplished some results and thus portrayed the story of 鈥淭he Widow鈥檚 Mite鈥濃攕he gave all she had, and I contribute likewise.
They were supplied with 30,000 francs to defray the cost of their establishment, and to this modest sum the crisis which soon overtook the parent establishment allowed them to add but little; but this mite, bestowed by the Church of France in the last days of her wealth, was destined to become, like the widow's mite, the price of innumerable blessings.
Ozanam names a chain of authors as belonging to this school of "Boethius, who on the eve of martyrdom wrote the consolations of that sorrow which is concealed under the illusions of the world; Isidore, Bede, Rabanus, Anselm, Bernard, Peter Damian, Peter the Lombard, who rejoiced 'to cast his sentences like the widow's mite into the treasury of the temple, Hugo, and Richard of St. Victor, Peter the Spaniard, Albert, St. Bonaventure, and St. Thomas."
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