Generous vs Unstinted - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Of noble birth.
Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
Large, more than ample, copious.
Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
* 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 33:
* 1892 , , Letters of Travel , ch. 1:
* 1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 31:
* 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 24:
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Generous is a related term of unstinted.
As adjectives the difference between generous and unstinted
is that generous is (obsolete) of noble birth while unstinted is not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.generous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thank you for your generous words.
- She's been extremely generous with her winnings.
Synonyms
* See alsounstinted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted .
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
Art: American Renaissance Man," Time , 21 June:
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.