Definition of "open-handedness" [open-handedness]

• Free-ness in giving; liberality; generosity. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We may speculate on what the effect of this genial open-handedness might have been, had it lasted, on the genius of the poet."
• "It was Cyrus who set the fashion; and we are familiar to this day with the open-handedness of Oriental kings."
• "Calvin, again, like some stern and austere stepson of the Christian God, jealous of the divine benignity and abused open-handedness of his Father's house, with word of merciless power set free all those souls that were more anxious to look the tremendous facts of necessity and evil and punishment full in the face than to reconcile them with any theory of the infinite mercy and loving kindness of a supreme"