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/dʒˌɛnərˈɑsəti/ Listen

noun

Generosity n.

Noble birth. (Obs.)

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."

Liberality in giving; munificence.

Synonyms: Magnanimity; liberality.

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Etymology of 'Generosity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Generosity" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself to him absolutely unconquerable in its perfection, unless by her own folly. It was easier to suspect her of this than to imagine in the man qualities which would be worthy of her. Easier and less degrading. Because folly may be generous- -could be nothing else but generosity in her; whereas to imagine her subjugated by something ...

— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad

... and leaned on the sill again, her face hidden in her hands. Her father's words about the kindness and generosity of Mr. Dinsmore and his daughter in offering to share their home with his children, came to her recollection, and all the favors received at the hands of these kindest of friends passed in review before her. Could her own mother have been ...

— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley

... war changed, and the Federal armies carried wide-spread destruction wherever they marched. Upon the other hand, the moment the struggle was over the conduct of the conquerors was marked by a clemency and generosity altogether unexampled in history, a complete amnesty being granted, and none, whether soldiers or civilians, being made to suffer for their share in the rebellion. The credit of this magnanimous conduct was to a great extent ...

— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty

... Hannah's shrewd good-humor was as wholesome as a sound winter apple, and Nathan had a gayety Lewis had never suspected. The old man grew very confidential in those days of Lewis's convalescence; he showed his simple heart with a generosity that made the sick man's lip tighten once or twice and his eyes blur;—Lewis came to know all about Sister Lydia; indeed, he knew more than the old man knew himself. When the invalid grew stronger, Nathan wrestled with him over the Prophecies, and ...

— The Way to Peace • Margaret Deland

... had he sunk at my feet, I would have spurned him from me with indignation and scorn. I could not but be conscious that the very act of having yielded myself up to him, had armed my lover with the power to accuse me of infidelity, and the more I fingered on the want of generosity such a suspicion implied, the more rooted became my dislike, the more profound my contempt for him, who could thus repay so great a ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

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