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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Maude and Mike the Meathead can be doctrinaire, pompous, in their liberality; everyone is an idiot sometimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
“Not merely grudging justice, but justice executed with liberality and cordial good feeling.”
From New York Times ● May 1, 2018
For years that facility has been a liberality to the state.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2018
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
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
Finally, we might seek for characteristic anecdotes of Caesar in his unexampled liberalities and contempt of money.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar
In the compass of one year it turns into branches, twigs, buds, leaves, blossoms, fruits, and seeds, in order, by those various shapes, to multiply its liberalities to mankind.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The Jesuits and Recollets had tolerable supplies on hand, and ground cleared and sown besides; and they promised to assist him with any supplies they might have, "but there were but few liberalities 'made.'"
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
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