LIBERALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liberally mean? 

• LIBERALLY (adverb)
  The adverb LIBERALLY has 2 senses:

1. freely in a nonliteral manner

2. in a generous manner

  Familiarity information: LIBERALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBERALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freely in a nonliteral manner

Context example:

he embellished his stories liberally

Pertainym:

liberal (not literal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a generous manner

Synonyms:

generously; liberally; munificently

Context example:

he gave liberally to several charities

Pertainym:

liberal (given or giving freely)

 Context examples 

Her family and friends administered comfort and commendation liberally.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of a pitcher which I flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr. Rochester at last.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

FDA and the Supreme Court have stated that label is to be interpreted liberally, and includes not only that which accompanies an article but also that which spiritually accompanies an article as well as supplements.

(Medical Product Label, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the hunters, a little dark-eyed man whom his mates called Smoke, was telling stories, liberally intersprinkled with oaths and obscenities; and every minute or so the group of hunters gave mouth to a laughter that sounded to me like a wolf-chorus or the barking of hell-hounds.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall hope to be in the future secured, when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

No objection was raised on the father's side; the young man was treated liberally; it was all as it should be: and as Emma became acquainted with Robert Martin, who was now introduced at Hartfield, she fully acknowledged in him all the appearance of sense and worth which could bid fairest for her little friend.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Crawford's business had been to declare himself the lover of Fanny, make decided proposals for her, and entreat the sanction of the uncle, who seemed to stand in the place of her parents; and he had done it all so well, so openly, so liberally, so properly, that Sir Thomas, feeling, moreover, his own replies, and his own remarks to have been very much to the purpose, was exceedingly happy to give the particulars of their conversation; and little aware of what was passing in his niece's mind, conceived that by such details he must be gratifying her far more than himself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess, with a long train of noble relations in their several phaetons, and three waiting-maids in a travelling chaise and four, behind her, is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell; it gives credit to every conclusion, and the author must share in the glory she so liberally bestows.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)