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発音

• IPA: /ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/

名詞

liberality (usually uncountable, plural liberalities)

1. The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.

   Synonym: largesse

   • 1668, John Denham, Of Justice (poem)

     That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     ' […] Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a-year, if the match takes place. […] '

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 20:

     She preferred that Lord Rotheles's liberality should take a purely personal direction. Whatever decorations might be lavished upon her dressing-room, the dowager would have to leave them behind her; not so those which filled the prodigality of red morocco cases on her toilette.

2. A gift; a gratuity.

   A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

3. Candor.
4. Impartiality.