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widow
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widow’s mite

wid·ow's mite


noun 
Definition:
 
small contribution: a contribution that, although small, is generous because it comes from somebody who has very little to give

[< the poor widow's contribution of two copper coins to the treasury in the Bible (Mark 12:42)]
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