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GENEROSITY
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Traducere în limba română
generosity s.
1. mărinimie, generozitate, dărnicie, largheţă, libertate; act de filantropie;
his many generosities to numeroasele lui acte de filantropie faţă de sau în favoarea (cu gen.).
2. (înv.) nobleţe.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I am sure I can never feel thankful enough for the generosity with which he has protected me, so much younger and lower in the school than himself.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
When I think of the kindness and favour I have met with, of her excellence and patience, and my uncle's generosity, I am mad with joy: but when I recollect all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)