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Meanings of illiberality in English

A disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money.

Usage of illiberality in English
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Bitterly have I been punished for the illiberality of such an opinion.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3
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Nothing has been exaggerated, nothing set down in a spirit of illiberality.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
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Leave such illiberality to cousin Goodenough: it would be quite beneath you!
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
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The people here appear to possess instincts of self-preservation and illiberality.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
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Forgive me, if you can, for a touch of illiberality about your paper.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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Such conditions also infect the education called liberal, with illiberality.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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Many leaders themselves finding they were disappointed, abandoned their minds to illiberality and ungratefulness.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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There is thus no reason in Cuba to complain of the illiberality of the laws.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
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Of the extremes, prodigality is more curable than illiberality.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
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This illiberality in religion was caused in the first place by the power of the clergy.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
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Now it pertains to injustice or illiberality to take possession of or retain external things unjustly.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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My creditors, whose insulting illiberality could only be equalled by their unbounded impositions, hourly assailed me.
Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, / With the lives of the ...
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But this belongs to covetousness or illiberality.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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But liberal and enlightened as was the general course of Walpole, he still made blunders, and showed occasional illiberality.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleo...
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Scottish literature of the eighteenth century failed to destroy this illiberality owing to the method of the Scotch philosophers.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
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I replied in the papers, pointing out the gross illiberality of the attack, and tried to provoke a discovery of the authors.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
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