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GENEROUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a generous manner
Example:
he gave liberally to several charities
Synonyms:
generously; liberally; munificently
Classified under:
Pertainym:
generous (willing to give and share unstintingly)
Context examples:
Everything supplied an amusement to the high glee of William's mind, and he was full of frolic and joke in the intervals of their higher-toned subjects, all of which ended, if they did not begin, in praise of the Thrush, conjectures how she would be employed, schemes for an action with some superior force, which (supposing the first lieutenant out of the way, and William was not very merciful to the first lieutenant) was to give himself the next step as soon as possible, or speculations upon prize-money, which was to be generously distributed at home, with only the reservation of enough to make the little cottage comfortable, in which he and Fanny were to pass all their middle and later life together.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"He's a husky young fellow, though," he admitted generously.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Any deals you make or assignments you work on should compensate you generously.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I may say at this distance of time, Trot, that I left him generously.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then he came in like a fresh-caught fish on a line, clearing the rail generously and striking the deck in a heap, on hands and knees, and rolling over.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Now, gentlemen, I want you to go and do your duty by the other tables as generously as you have by mine, especially the art table, she said, ordering out 'Teddy's own', as the girls called the college friends.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In her first effort at being very, very good, she decided to make her will, as Aunt March had done, so that if she did fall ill and die, her possessions might be justly and generously divided.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
