Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: liberality
IPA transcription: [l,ɪb,ɝ'ælət,i]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: liberality, liberalness
    Meaning: the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
  • Synonyms: liberality, liberalness
    Meaning: an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom
Usage examples
  • "Your sentiments are liberality itself, my dear friend.
  • No one knew of his liberality except those whom he helped, for he had not the least wish to pose as a benefactor.
  • Thus Aladdin, while he paid all respect to the sultan, won by his affable behaviour and liberality the affections of the people.
  • His followers in this place ever afterwards paid a great respect to Cats, and supported the hospital in question by public subscriptions with much liberality.
  • On Christmas week he allowed me no board money, but made me a present of seventy-five cents; my mistress added twenty-five cents, which was the extent of their liberality.
  • Here is a case. There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: "the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach."
  • Folk told how a certain knight from beyond the Humber, who had passed the sea in quest of wealth and honour, had so done, that by reason of his prowess, his liberality, and his modesty, men called him the Knight Peerless, since they did not know his name.
  • Without appearing to indulge his personal resentment, Julian might easily confound the crime of the son and of the father; but he was reconciled by the distress of Marcellus, and the liberality of the emperor endeavored to heal the wound which had been inflicted by the hand of justice.
  • The bloody shirt and handkerchief confirmed the idea suggested by the bullet; for the blood on examination proved to be capital claret, and no more. When I came to think of these things, and also of the late increase of liberality and expenditure on the part of Mr. Goodfellow, I entertained a suspicion which was none the less strong because I kept it altogether to myself.
  • From the introduction of Christianity among the Saxons, there had been monasteries in England; and these establishments had extremely multiplied by the donations of the princes and nobles, whose superstition, derived from their ignorance and precarious life, and increased by remorses for the crimes into which they were so frequently betrayed, knew no other expedient for appeasing the Deity, than a profuse liberality towards the ecclesiastics.