liberality
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Maude and Mike the Meathead can be doctrinaire, pompous, in their liberality; everyone is an idiot sometimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
Everyone in our community feels a complete sorrow for the sufferers, and the response to the Mayor’s proclamation for help will be spontaneous and of a liberality worthy of the great metropolis.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
The slow revelation of his error unnerves Frank, upsets his liberality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
In December, Wall tried to display leadership through liberality, presenting teammates with Rolex watches; later that night, the Wizards lost to the Brooklyn Nets and fell to 14-13.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2018
Judging by the carefree liberality with which dusts for lawn treatments by suburbanites are laced with chlordane, this warning has not been taken to heart.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
There is something even in the thoughtless liberality of youth to which one's heart warms, even while one's wisdom reproves.—But what struck Elizabeth was that Ascott's liberalities were always toward himself, and himself only.
From Mistress and Maid by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Romans of those times, unlike the present race, did not consider the far niente as an occupation; they were convinced that their liberalities were ill-placed in bestowing them on such men.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
Many other examples might be given of the secret liberalities of the marquis, who gave all his presents with his own hand that they might not be known.
She had a great fit of the liberalities this morning.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He and his brother inherited two million sesterces, though he has lessened his share "by distant travel and long studies and constant liberalities."
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
