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
- 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
- all heart
- alms-giving
- altruism
- beneficence
- benevolence
- big-heartedness
- bounteousness
- bountifulness
- bounty
- charitableness
- charity
- free giving
- freehandedness
- generousness
- goodness
- great-heartedness
- heart
- high-mindedness
- hospitality
- kindness
- large-heartedness
- largesse
- lavishness
- magnanimity
- magnanimousness
- munificence
- nobleness
- openhandedness
- philanthropy
- profusion
- readiness
- unselfishness
- unsparingness
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