noun
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generosity; bounty
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the quality or condition of being liberal
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Origin of liberality
1300–50; Middle English liberalite < Latin līberālitās. See liberal, -ity
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Everyone in our community feels a complete sorrow for the sufferers, and the response to the Mayor’s proclamation for help will be spontaneous and of a liberality worthy of the great metropolis.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
The slow revelation of his error unnerves Frank, upsets his liberality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
For years that facility has been a liberality to the state.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2018
The idea began in Berlin and Amsterdam, where they had L.A.’s opposite problem – the big crowds and liberality of their club scenes were making some longtime residents annoyed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2017
Judging by the carefree liberality with which dusts for lawn treatments by suburbanites are laced with chlordane, this warning has not been taken to heart.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
All these liberalities I could amply illustrate did space permit; as it is, I can give but an instance each to the first two.
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
Leo X., by his generous and enterprising temper, had much exhausted his treasury, and was obliged to employ every invention which might yield money, in order to support his projects, pleasures, and liberalities.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
I would willingly be told, whether insolence does not reward its own liberalities, and whether he that exacts servility can, with justice, at the same time, expect affection?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
His house was the resort of all the zealous clergy of the party; and his hospitality, as well as his liberalities to the silenced and deprived ministers, proved as chargeable as his former debaucheries.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
Since the heavy losses which the Panama failure has entailed on the family, no change nor diminution in these liberalities has been made.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
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