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- noun Plural form of
generosity .
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Examples
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Like for example the transportation licenses or "generosities" distributed by the king on those who pass him notes filled with sympathy-generating phrases - the same phrases that beggars usually use while holding their hands out on pavements.
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In addition, those "generosities" should not be under the king's control for him to hand out whichever way he wish without any accountability - awarding them to whoever throws a word of praise in his ear.
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"generosities" are being handed out to those who deserve them (poor people, people with special needs (disabled),. .etc) - which is of course highly unlikely - this is not something that should make the citizens proud at all - work, education and health benefits are constitutional rights which the state should provide to its citizens without humiliating them in this demeaning manner.
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He knew that whatever she did — her quick generosities, her hot enthusiasms or angers, her birdlike caressing ways — was unbelievably sincere.
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On an average they perform vastly greater generosities than do business men.
Chapter 21 2010
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From President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Gates and throughout the policies and generosities offered to this situation to date, the United States can hold its head very high.
Sean Penn: My Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony on Rebuilding Haiti 2010
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I have tried to understand his truths and his deceptions, the source of his generosities and cruelties.
Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010
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Through your cash generosities, our donations will be transmitted swiftly and hopefully ease the burden of our fellow Filipinos in time when they needed it most.
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You're on the board of the Cato Institute and you and George Soros helped to finance the ACLU's successful push to deal with the PATRIOT Act, among many other humanitarian gestures and generosities.
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Through your cash generosities, our donations will be transmitted swiftly and hopefully ease the burden of our fellow Filipinos in time when they needed it most.
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