liberality
/ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay."
- "'[…] Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a-year, if the match takes place. […]'"
- "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."
- "A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities."
Etymology
From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin līberālitās (“a noble, kind, or friendly disposition; generosity”), equivalent to liberal + -ity.