illiberality

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Garlic to Mr. Porter, the man, for his astounding, frenetic hedonism and illiberality .

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, he was far from the illiberality of denying that philosophy duly bounded was not permissible.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

Now it is a mark of prodigality to do good to others; while it is a mark of illiberality to desist from doing good.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I answer that, Every vice is denominated from a deficiency of virtue, because deficiency is more opposed to virtue: thus illiberality is more opposed to liberality than prodigality is.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The Republic was conceived, it is true, without bias of party or race, but there is none the less a strain of arbitrariness and illiberality in it.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton