Charity vs Iota - What's the difference?
charity | iota |
(archaic) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.
In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
(uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (countable) The goods or money given to those in need.
(countable) An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
The ninth, and smallest, letter of the Greek alphabet.
A jot; a very small, inconsiderable quantity.
* Burke
As nouns the difference between charity and iota
is that charity is Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men while iota is the ninth, and smallest, letter of the Greek alphabet.As a proper noun Charity
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.charity
English
Noun
- Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity . — John Mitchell Mason
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
Synonyms
* (organization) charitable organizationiota
English
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(en noun)- As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.
- There are twelve iotas on that page.
- They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation.