Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A small allowance or wage; an allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
2. (n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
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Address on Easter Eve
... More, ours has been the guilt, not of Peter only, but of Judas. Too often we have
betrayed Him for the veriest pittance of this world's good. ...
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First Day. Compassion.
... the tattered garb of poverty, mourns, unsolaced and unpitied, its "loved and lost."
Are there none such within your reach, to whom a trifling pittance would be ...
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With the Entry of Angela's Great Picture "The Coming of Christ" ...
... dreary out-lying district of the metropolis, where none but the poorest of the poor
dwell, working from dawn till night for the merest pittance which scarcely ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xxxviii with the entry of.htm
Chap. xxxvii. While Occupied in this Plan, He Received Letters ...
... By gorging his soldiers with the flesh of sacrifices, he so corrupted them, that
they disdained their wonted pittance in corn, and wantonly threw it away. ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xxxvii while occupied in.htm
The Life of Mr. Andrew Duncan.
... Better be pined to death by hunger, than for a little pittance of the earth, to
perish for ever, and never be recovered, so long as the days of heaven shall ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr andrew 2.htm
The Widow's Mite
... What He saw was the last pittance, cast to a service which in reality was no longer
God's, yet given with a noble earnestness, a sacrifice pure from the heart. ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 12 41-44 the widows mite.htm
Life at Cæsarea; Baptism; and Adoption of Monastic Life.
... named Syncletius came to Basil to be admitted to his monastery, with the statement
that he had renounced his property, excepting only a pittance to save him ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/iii life at caesarea baptism and.htm
The Feast at Simon's House
... was treasurer for the disciples, and from their little store he had secretly drawn
for his own use, thus narrowing down their resources to a meager pittance. ...
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Dwight -- the Sovereignty of God
... He is nursed, if he can be said to be nursed at all, on a coarse, scanty and precarious
pittance; holds life only as a tenant at will; combats from the first ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 3/dwight the sovereignty of.htm
From the Close of the General Conference of 1808, to the ...
... expenses. Yet this is the fact, and from this pittance they had to supply
themselves with clothes and traveling apparatus. Hence ...
/.../chapter 8 from the close.htm
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Pittance (1 Occurrence)... Multi-Version Concordance
Pittance (1 Occurrence). Psalms 44:12 You sell your people
for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale. (See NIV).
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Pity (165 Occurrences)
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Bible Concordance
Pittance (1 Occurrence)Psalms 44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
(See NIV)
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