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c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 155 Covetise..stered þe robbour þerto, and nouȝt my liberalnes [?a1475 Harl. liberalite, L. liberalitas].

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 82 (MED) Moral vertues as ben meeknesse..chastite, liberalnesse.

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. xci. 86 Though this bountie, and this liberalness, A glorious vertue be.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 204 The liberalnesse of the Almes.

1699 tr. P. Gassendi Three Disc. Happiness, Virtue, & Liberty ii. iii. 208 He should not be too lavish of his Estate, and cast it away in such Liberalness, as belongs only to Princes.

1707 W. Turner Exercises to Accidence 118/1 Knavery imitates Prudence, Pride greatness of Mind, Prodigality Liberalness, [etc.].

1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 527/2 The moderation of their zeal has been taken for indolence, and the liberalness of their charity for laxity of principle.

1861 Hartford (Connecticut) Daily Courant 29 May 2/2 The policy of the British government, notwithstanding its apparent liberalness and inclination towards constitutional freedom, has been corroded by self interest.

1913 Classical Weekly 7 19/1 It is this broad-mindedness, this liberalness, towards all things that is the chief element in my definition of culture.

1926 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 128 187/2 The hard-headed and clear-thinking liberalness of its views.

1968 H. Sebald Adolescence xi. 301 Recalling earlier-stated findings reflecting the remarkable religious liberalness of Jewish youths, the most logical explanation for their conservative attitudes toward intermarriage thus appears to be the dimension of familism rather than religiosity.

1990 Debonair Jan. 87/2 The country crawls out of the gloom of oppression into the light of liberalness.

2006 Denver Post (Nexis) 5 Nov. f19 For all its self-congratulatory liberalness, Holland has fostered a Muslim immigrant underclass.