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Boon vs Alms - What's the difference?

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Boon is a related term of alms.


As nouns the difference between boon and alms

is that boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching while alms is something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.

As an adjective boon

is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".

boon

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
  • * :
    • For which to God he made so many an idle boon
  • (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
  • * :
    • Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
  • * 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
    • I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
  • A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
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  • An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
    • Synonyms
    * blessing * benefit
    Antonyms
    * bane

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) boon, bone, from .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
  • kind; bountiful; benign
  • * Milton
    • Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
  • gay; merry; jovial; convivial
  • * Arbuthnot
    • a boon companion, loving his bottle
  • * Episode 16
    • --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
    Quotations
    * Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain — * A boon companion, loving his bottle —

    Etymology 3

    From Gaelic and Irish via Scots.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    alms

    English

    Noun

    (alms)
  • Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
    • She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms .
    Alms are distributed from the weekly collection for the purpose.
  • * c.'' 1779 ,
    • St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.

    Related terms

    * eleemosynary

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