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1. 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. A gift; a gratuity;

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

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  • GENEROSITY
    1. Noble birth. Harris . 2. The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow. 3. Liberality in giving; munificence. Syn.
  • KINDNESS
    1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts
  • ABUNDANCE
    An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
  • PLENITUDE
    1. The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power. 2. Animal fullness; repletion; plethora.
  • KIND-HEARTEDNESS
    The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
  • COMPLETENESS
    The state of being complete.
  • MUNIFICENCE
    Means of defense; fortification. Spenser.
  • CHARITY
    Now abideth faith, hope, charity, three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1. Cor. xiii. 13. They, at least, are little to be envied, in whose hearts the great charities . . . lie dead. Ruskin. With malice towards none, with charity for all.
  • BENEVOLENCE
    1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species
  • BENEFICENCE
    The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence.
  • RICHNESS
    The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).
  • KINDLINESS
    1. Natural inclination; natural course. Milton. 2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.
  • BOUNTY
    bonté, fr. L. bonitas, fr. bonus good, for older duonus; cf. Skr. 1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower. 2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity;
  • COPIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.
  • AMPLITUDE
    The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range. (more info) 1. State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure,
  • HEIGHT
    AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
  • HEIGHTEN
    1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
  • FULNESS
    See FULLNESS
  • HEIGHTENER
    One who, or that which, heightens.
  • REPLETION
    Fullness of blood; plethora. (more info) 1. The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun ne made her never sick. Chaucer.
  • CONDONATION
    Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
  • FEARFULNESS
    The state of being fearful.
  • IREFULNESS
    Wrathfulness. Wyclif.
  • STARTFULNESS
    Aptness to start.
  • ARTFULNESS
    The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
  • BASHFULNESS
    The quality of being bashful. Syn. -- Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or agitation of the spirits at coming into contact with others; diffidence is produced
  • FORGETFULNESS
    1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
  • APHILANTHROPY
    Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.
  • FRIGHTFULNESS
    The quality of being frightful.
  • WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS
    The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
  • DREADFULNESS
    The quality of being dreadful.
  • BALEFULNESS
    The quality or state of being baleful.
  • UNCHARITY
    Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.

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