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
Snapping back violently from his previous liberality, Tevye banishes Khave from the family, declaring her dead — a decision he will come to regret.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2018
For years that facility has been a liberality to the state.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 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
I shall not recount the democratic liberalities of his system, as it was matured by his personal efforts and advice.
From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Brantz Mayer
Is this the worthy return you make your Emperor, and late Commander, for the distinction he has shown you, for the favour he has done you, and for his liberalities towards you?
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Thomas Gordon
And, as my power was royal, my state and magnificence were suitable to it; my buildings, my furniture, my household, my equipage, my liberalities, and my charities were above the rank of a subject.
From Dialogues of the Dead by Henry Morley
I fear me that the horse and the barn were a little extreme for our budding liberalities.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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