LIBERALITY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

2.
n.

A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.