noun
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generosity; bounty
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the quality or condition of being liberal
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Etymology
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
The City of Sassinoth with equal liberality sent their young physician along with me, for I was not in very good shape yet.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Romans of those times, unlike the present race, did not consider the far niente as an occupation; they were convinced that their liberalities were ill-placed in bestowing them on such men.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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
We cannot indeed enhance his glory by the most splendid liberalities, or the most costly offerings; but he solemnly requires, and graciously deigns to accept our penitence and our obedience.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
I found a board, commemorating the liberalities of Cheylard for the past year, hung up, like a banner, in the diminutive and tottering church.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Yet Alphonse, with all his greed, was not unwilling to share the plunder with those who secured it for him, and several of his not wholly disinterested liberalities of this kind are on record.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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