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English Idioms :: generous to a fault
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generosity.html - {adj. phr.} Excessively generous. * /Generous to a fault, my Aunt Elizabeth gave away all her rare books to her old college./ |
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Traditional English :: generous
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generosity.html - adj. 1 giving or given freely. 2 magnanimous, noble-minded, unprejudiced. 3 a ample, abundant, copious (a generous portion). b (of wine) rich and full. generosity n. generously adv. generousness n. [OF genereus f. L generosus noble, magnanimous (as GENUS)] |
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English Idioms :: general
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generosity.html - See: IN GENERAL. |
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English Idioms :: generation gap
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generosity.html - {n.}, {informal}, {hackneyed phrase} The difference in social values, philosophies, and manners between children and their parents, teachers and relatives which causes a lack of understanding between them and frequently leads to violent confrontations. * /My daughter is twenty and I am forty, but we have no generation gap in our family./ |
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English Idioms :: generous to a fault
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generosity.html - {adj. phr.} Excessively generous. * /Generous to a fault, my Aunt Elizabeth gave away all her rare books to her old college./ |
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Traditional English :: genera
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generosity.html - pl. of GENUS. |
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