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

From Time Magazine Archive

But evil is a difference constituting a species of morality; for a bad habit differs in species from a good habit, as liberality from illiberality.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Of the extremes, prodigality is more curable than illiberality.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

Scottish literature of the eighteenth century failed to destroy this illiberality owing to the method of the Scotch philosophers.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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 Tocqueville, Alexis de