lībĕrālĭtas (noun F) : 1. liber
* A way of thinking befitting a freeman; a noble, kind, or friendly disposition, noble spirit, kindness, affability.
* In gen. (rare): liberalitate liberos retinere satius est, quam metu,Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 32: qui ita vivunt, ut eorum probetur fides, liberalitas,kindness,Cic. Lael. 5, 19: (L. Cassius) homo, non liberalitate, ut alii, sed ipsa tristitia et severitate popularis,id. Brut. 25, 97.
* In partic., generosity, liberality (the usual signif. of the word; syn.: bonitas, beneficentia, benignitas): beneficentia, quam eandem vel benignitatem vel liberalitatem appellari licet,Cic. Off. 1, 7, 20: liberalitas ac benignitas,id. de Or. 2, 25, 105: magnificentia liberalitatis,id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24: ut ea liberalitate utamur, quae prosit amicis, noceat nemini,id. Off. 1, 14, 43: quid dicam de pietate in matrem, liberalitate in sorores?id. Lael. 3, 11: liberalitatis virtutes,Quint. 6 prooem. § 6: illa quidam catachresis volunt esse, cum ... pro luxuria liberalitas dicitur; a quibus equidem dissentio,id. 8, 6, 36.
* Transf. (abstr. pro concr.), a gift, present (post-Aug.): decima parte liberalitatis apud quemque eorum relicta,Tac. H. 1, 20; Suet. Tib. 46: unaque et altera liberalitate locupletavit, id. Vit. Hor.—Plur.: revocatae liberalitates ejus,gifts, grants,Suet. Claud. 29: liberalitates Neronis revocandas curavit,id. Galb. 15.

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