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
The slow revelation of his error unnerves Frank, upsets his liberality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
In December, Wall tried to display leadership through liberality, presenting teammates with Rolex watches; later that night, the Wizards lost to the Brooklyn Nets and fell to 14-13.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 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
To the same result, it will be found, tended the vast stream of Caesar's liberalities.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar
Indeed, the worthy citizens are under some such delusion themselves, and boast of immunities, and liberalities of government, such as would place them at the head of the German nation.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
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
I shall not recount the democratic liberalities of his system, as it was matured by his personal efforts and advice.
From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Brantz Mayer
He aimed to reconcile the disaffected, by his good offices; and to gain their affections by unexpected and unmerited liberalities.
From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris
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