liberality
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin līberālitās (“a noble, kind, or friendly disposition; generosity”), equivalent to liberal + -ity.
- 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.”
- A gift; a gratuity.
“A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.”
- Candor.
- Impartiality.