open-handedness

We may speculate on what the effect of this genial open-handedness might have been, had it lasted, on the genius of the poet.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

We may speculate on what the effect of this genial open-handedness might have been, had it lasted, on the genius of the poet.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Calvin, again, like some stern and austere stepson of the Christian God, jealous of the divine benignity and abused open-handedness of his Father's house, with word of merciless power set free all those souls that were more anxious to look the tremendous facts of necessity and evil and punishment full in the face than to reconcile them with any theory of the infinite mercy and loving kindness of a supreme

Voltaire 2007

It was Cyrus who set the fashion; and we are familiar to this day with the open-handedness of Oriental kings.

Cyropaedia 2007

They knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked enviously out of the window at the merry party of healthy Russians assembled under the chestnut tree.

Anna Karenina 2003

And with his perception of this wall all that had been the romance of his existence, the casualness, the light-hearted improvidence, the miraculous open-handedness of life faded out.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

Fulk wanted to impress the Duke's lords with his lavish open-handedness.

Witch World Norton, Andre 1963

Hence liberality is also called open-handedness (_largitas_), because that which is open does not withhold things but parts with them.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Si'Wren, marveling at the open-handedness of her powerful rival,

Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

I am too well acquainted with the open-handedness of the mining fraternity in the

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek