Definition for LIB'ER-AL-LY

LIB'ER-AL-LY, adv.

  1. Bountifully; freely; largely; with munificence. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James i.
  2. With generous and impartial regard to other interests than our own; with enlarged views; without selfishness or meanness; as, to think or judge liberally of men and their actions.
  3. Freely; not strictly; not literally.

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