Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foolishly liberal; improvident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Foolishly liberal.
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And as well as ye would eschew to be called an avaricious man or a chinch, as well should ye keep you and govern you in such wise, that men call you not fool-large; therefore, saith Tullius: The goods of thine house should not be hid nor kept so close, but that they might be opened by pity and debonnairety, that is to say, to give
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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