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charitable

 adjective
     
char‧it‧a‧ble
1 relating to giving help to the poor [≠ uncharitable; ↪ charity]:
charitable groups
a charitable donation
2 kind and sympathetic in the way you judge people:
a charitable view of his actions
—charitably adverb
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