All 4 Uses of
philanthropy
in
The House of Mirth
- Of course, being fatally poor and dingy, it was wise of Gerty to have taken up philanthropy and symphony concerts; but there was something irritating in her assumption that existence yielded no higher pleasures, and that one might get as much interest and excitement out of life in a cramped flat as in the splendours of the Van Osburgh establishment.†
Chpt 1.8
- The other-regarding sentiments had not been cultivated in Lily, and she was often bored by the relation of her friend's philanthropic efforts, but today her quick dramatizing fancy seized on the contrast between her own situation and that represented by some of Gerty's "cases."†
Chpt 1.10
- Lily felt a new interest in herself as a person of charitable instincts: she had never before thought of doing good with the wealth she had so often dreamed of possessing, but now her horizon was enlarged by the vision of a prodigal philanthropy.†
Chpt 1.10
- Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven.†
Chpt 1.14 *
Definition:
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(philanthropy) helping others -- especially donating money to worthy causes; or an organization that does so