(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(2) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(3) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(4) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(5) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(6) People who knew him told Guardian Australia he was generous to the core, even if in desperate need for help himself.
(7) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(8) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(9) Both he and Burns were generous with their time when talking to me, and offered thoughtful contributions to that article.
(10) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
(11) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(13) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.
(14) Offering our ADF 2% with no cuts to conditions isn’t exactly generous, but it is a mile ahead of the attack on rights and real wages on offer from this government to public sector workers,” she said.
(15) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(16) With Level I as a generous clinical indicator, 110 (25%) of 525 patients were transfused in excess of blood needs; by Level II (intermediate) and Level III (strict) criteria, 221 (42%) and 314 (60%) of 525 patients, respectively, were transfused in excess of blood needs.
(17) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
(18) In the current experiments we investigated whether the previously recognized sparseness of A beta on the surface of tubular epithelial cells might be accounted for by a protein coding difference deduced from the primary structure of its transcript compared with sequence from lymphoid cells that normally express A beta in generous amounts.
(19) Foster, as minister for the environment three years ago, hatched a scheme to promote renewable fuels through excessively generous subsidies.
(20) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
Selflessness
Definition:
(n.) Quality or state of being selfless.
Example Sentences:
(1) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(2) For now, Shimizu will not allow the children in her care to be interviewed and brushes off praise for her selflessness.
(3) It was a difficult decision because he has been continuously supportive of the direction that we have wanted to take the club, and he has worked tirelessly and selflessly for Inter, with both belief and passion.
(4) Ted Cruz reaches the dramatic climax of his pitch to voters with a flourish that is as subtle as it is selfless.
(5) SDLP councillor John Boyle said: "This selfless heroine put the lives of her passengers and people living around ahead of herself."
(6) But even more than this bravura dramatic writing, the story of Dr Rieux's selfless struggle with the illness, and the different responses of other citizens, colleagues and chance acquaintances, unfolds an urgent allegory of war.
(7) Announcing his death, his mother Jane said: "My heart is bursting with pride but breaking with pain for my courageous, selfless, inspirational son."
(8) I have never met or spoken with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor.
(9) In contrast, Duncan has been praised as the paragon of selfless basketball, sacrificing his numbers for the good of the team.
(10) Usually I send Cousin off on her own, but as it was her birthday, I selflessly went with her and our friend Olga.
(11) Aitken spoke of the army's "core values": selfless commitment, courage, discipline, integrity, loyalty and respect for others.
(12) Announcing Stephen's death, his mother wrote that "her heart is bursting with pride but breaking with pain for my courageous, selfless, inspirational son", and that the "ongoing support and outpouring of love for Stephen will help greatly at this difficult time, in the same way as it helped Stephen throughout his journey".
(13) These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America's Armed Forces.
(14) • Read Kevin McCarra's match report • Read Scott Murray's minute-by-minute report • Paul Hayward: Barça live the dream and nod off • David Pleat: Walcott's introduction turned the tide • Richard Williams: Fábregas was selfless to a fault "I am not good," he said.
(15) Four necessary constituents of a caring experience among nursing students emerged: Authentic presencing, selfless sharing, fortifying support, and enriching effects.
(16) The transformation is gynaecological, but the expectations are similar – she is selfless, she is a saint.
(17) Certainly, Duncan's selflessness has been on full display throughout these Finals, in which he has mostly been in the background while some of his less celebrated team-mates have shone.
(18) The MEK leadership moved swiftly to distance itself from Saddam Hussein, emphasising its opposition to the Islamic government in Tehran and casting its supporters as selfless and long suffering supporters of freedom and democracy.
(19) He never returned to politics, but on his death in 2006 was widely saluted for his selfless contribution to society.
(20) "They get our derision when they deserve our compassion and a political selflessness we've been unable to muster," it said.