LIBERALITY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of liberality in English

(Definition of liberality from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of liberality

liberality
Churches, in turn, emphasize the duties that one person owes another and the parallels between charity and enlightened liberality.
She is a whirling, bustling cheapskate, the kind who "excels at dictating liberality to others" while jealously hoarding her own income.
The latter ruled the country with the utmost justice and liberality for the rest of his long life.
These labels have been applied with great liberality to repress opponents and to restrict religious activity itself.
And their emanation from it is due to its liberality, and because it does not fail whatever is worthy and adapted.
Developing one's taste for liberality through a liberal education, for instance, can be considered either a taste change or an investment in human capital, and thus a change in constraints.
I must bear witness to the honesty and liberality of booksellers.
Liberality means leniency to error and evil, and severity towards truth and goodness.
The public has not, nor has it ever had any right to the same beyond what has been conceded by the liberality of the owners.
English liberality has already spent five thousand dollars, and the authorities gave reluctant consent to our coming up to distribute it.
Both delegated their highest powers to worthless favorites, and both enriched these favorites with such foolish liberality that they remained poor themselves.
If the gospel does not draw out our gratitude and liberality, then it has never touched us.
But even higher testimony to the liberality and progressive spirit of this prince is a school for the education of women.
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Translations of liberality

in Chinese (Traditional)
開明,公允,自由…
in Chinese (Simplified)
开明,公允,自由…
in Spanish
liberalidad, generosidad…
in Portuguese
liberalidade…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
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in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
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libéralité…
serbest fikirlilik, cömertlik…
vrijgevigheid…
štědrost, liberálnost…
generøsitet, rundhåndethed, tolerance…
sifat pemurah…
ความมีใจกว้าง…
sự hào phóng…
hojność, tolerancyjność…
frikostighet, liberalitet…
kemurahan hati…
die Freisinnigkeit…
gavmildhet, frisinn, liberalitet…
терпимість, ліберальність…
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