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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