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illiberality

  • a word derived from illiberal.
    illiberal
    adjective
    narrowminded; bigoted.

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Garlic to Mr. Porter, the man, for his astounding, frenetic hedonism and illiberality .

From Time Magazine Archive

The extreme of this virtue means a defect, of course; it means narrowness of vision, conservatism that comes close to suspicion, illiberality.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

They have none of the Canton illiberality or prejudices about them, and are most willing to teach their art to the natives.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

As the friends of free-trade are more numerous than those of democracy, I think that it would have been easier to attack the Government on its commercial than on its political illiberality.

From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But liberal and enlightened as was the general course of Walpole, he still made blunders, and showed occasional illiberality.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord