Liberality

Margaret sent her thanks to the navvies and with her “customary liberality” said she would not forget them.

He defined ethos as the nine cardinal virtues of justice, courage, temperance, magnificence, magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, prudence and wisdom, and concluded that anyone with good ethos was less likely to be involved in crime and criminalities.

A biographer of Emerson described the group as "the occasional meetings of a changing body of liberal thinkers, agreeing in nothing but their liberality".

Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, p. 247 Perhaps it was in part its scientific liberality that made Nature a longer-lasting success than its predecessors.

Finding, as he said, that the liberality of former kings had left the Crown "no estates except the high roads of Portugal," he determined to crush the feudal nobility and seize its territories.

He set no great value on money and possessions; his liberality and hospitality were often misused in such a way that his old faithful Swabian servant had sometimes difficulty in managing the household.

However, this liberality eventually led to dissent as John Thomas developed his personal beliefs and began to question mainstream orthodox Christian beliefs.

In case of an emergency in the condition of a particular road, men of influence and liberality were appointed, or voluntarily acted, as curatores or temporary commissioners to superintend the work of repair.

Liberality resembles Duquesnoy's famous Santa Susanna, but rendered more elegant.

Mills also stated that chivalry was a social, not a military phenomenon, with its key features: generosity, fidelity, liberality, and courtesy.

Show me any one person who by that Gospel has been reclaimed from drunkenness to sobriety, from fury and passion to meekness, from avarice to liberality, from reviling to well-speaking, from wantonness to modesty.

The allegorical figures of Magnanimity and Liberality have an impassive, ethereal dignity.

The House, once a body of only about 50 members, had been greatly enlarged by the liberality of George III and his successors in creating peerages.

There was certainly no lack of precedents for this enforced liberality, and the change made by Claudius may have been a mere change in the nature of the expenditure imposed on the quaestors.

To the virtues of liberality, charity and clemency he added the Machiavellian qualities of deception and shrewdness, so highly esteemed by the princes of his time.