illiberality

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Against everything like injustice or illiberality, his protest was eager, but he was willing to leave polemics to others; what he said was in the strain of faith in larger and more inclusive beliefs.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

There is an anecdote told of the poet Hafiz, in Sir William Jones's Life, which, in reporting this instance of illiberality, recurs naturally to the memory.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

In my youth I had to contend with prejudice and illiberality; yet I was of a quiet temper, and easy to live with, and I never interfered with or pryed into other people's affairs.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary

As the friends of free-trade are more numerous than those of democracy, I think that it would have been easier to attack the Government on its commercial than on its political illiberality.

From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de