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liberality

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17
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10
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/ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/

Definition of liberality

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
    “That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.”
    “She preferred that Lord Rotheles's liberality should take a purely personal direction. Whatever decorations might be lavished upon her dressing-room, the dowager would have to leave them behind her; not so those which filled the prodigality of red morocco cases on her toilette.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
    “That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.”
    “She preferred that Lord Rotheles's liberality should take a purely personal direction. Whatever decorations might be lavished upon her dressing-room, the dowager would have to leave them behind her; not so those which filled the prodigality of red morocco cases on her toilette.”
  2. (uncountable, usually)A gift; a gratuity.
    “A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.”
  3. (uncountable, usually)Candor.
  4. (uncountable, usually)Impartiality.

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Etymology

From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin līberālitās (“a noble, kind, or friendly disposition; generosity”), equivalent to liberal + -ity.

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