Antonyms for liberality

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lib-uh-ral-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɪb əˈræl ɪ ti

Definition of liberality

Origin : mid-14c., "generosity," from Old French liberalité "generosity, liberality" (13c.), from Latin liberalitatem (nominative liberalitas) "way of thinking or acting befitting a free man," noun of quality from liberalis (see liberal (adj.)).

noun generosity

Example sentences :

If we don't profit by that liberality the fault is not His but our own.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

The cost of this act of liberality amounted nearly to L2000.
Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

Generosity and liberality, like honesty, prove the best policy after all.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

Rich, noble and great they are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the peasant was poor, there was no limit to his liberality in the little he had.
Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever

There were few of the poor where I lived, who did not partake of my liberality.
Extract from : « The Autobiography of Madame Guyon » by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Poetry, not less than painting and architecture, witnessed his liberality.
Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird

Hence the liberality in gift distribution was an attempt to appease them.
Extract from : « Old Fort Snelling » by Marcus L. Hansen

Barry was not the only artist who profited by Edmund Burke's liberality.
Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various

Synonyms for liberality

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