philanthropical

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“Jacinda could be tapped by any number of United Nations, or charitable, or philanthropical, or other kinds of organizations,” Hoadley said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Ross was director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a philanthropical organization founded by the heirs of oil company executive John D. Rockefeller.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2022

“A circle of like-minded philanthropical ladies, meeting, as was their habit, at Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party in Candler Park.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

ExxonMobil heads the list with a donation of between $1m and $5m that it claimed was purely philanthropical.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015

Crowds flocked to hear Pastor Guillebert whenever he preached, and many were stirred by his eloquence to devote themselves to pious and philanthropical labours. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)