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/lˌɪbərˈæləti/ Listen

noun

Liberality n. (pl. liberalities)

The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. "That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay."

A gift; a gratuity; sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

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Etymology of 'Liberality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Liberality" Quotes from Famous Books

... the singular lightness and brightness of the climate—made, altogether, such a combination of wonders that we wandered about, the first day, in a kind of bewildered dream, like children at a fair. Before that week was ended, being tempted by the beauty of the place and the liberality of the pay, we had agreed to take service with the Turin and Genoa Railway Company, and to turn our backs upon ...

— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens

... was meditating. Heron's precautions for the safe-guarding of the most precious life in Europe were more complete than he had anticipated. What lavish liberality would be required! what superhuman ingenuity and boundless courage in order to break down all the barriers that had been set up round that young life that flickered inside this ...

— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy

... exporter of naval stores or of provisions. Those articles belonged wholly to America, and they had all the protection in that treaty which a treaty could give. But so much has that treaty been perverted, that the liberality of it on the part of France, has served to encourage Jay to form a counter-treaty with England; for he must have supposed the hands of France tied up by her treaty with America, when he was making such large concessions in favour of England. The injury which Mr. Washington's administration ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... for his appearance; but the property was soon after sold at public vendue, at less than half its value, and Alonzo's father and mother were compelled to abandon the premises, and take shelter in a little hut, belonging to a neighbouring farmer, illy and temporarily furnished by the gratuitous liberality of a ...

— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.

... both are free, the one to sell, the other to buy. Henceforth their respective pretensions go for nothing; and the estimate, whether fair or unfair, that they place, the one upon his verse, the other upon his liberality, can have no influence upon the conditions of the contract. We must no longer, in making our bargains, weigh talent; ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

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