illiberal
adjective
narrowminded; bigoted.
illiberality
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a word derived from
illiberal.
Example Sentences
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Garlic to Mr. Porter, the man, for his astounding, frenetic hedonism and illiberality .
From Time Magazine Archive
The honourable gentleman has taxed me with illiberality.
From Sydney Smith by George William Erskine Russell
The Republic was conceived, it is true, without bias of party or race, but there is none the less a strain of arbitrariness and illiberality in it.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
I answer that, Every vice is denominated from a deficiency of virtue, because deficiency is more opposed to virtue: thus illiberality is more opposed to liberality than prodigality is.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
There is an anecdote told of the poet Hafiz, in Sir William Jones's Life, which, in reporting this instance of illiberality, recurs naturally to the memory.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
