charitableness

Noun

charitableness (usually uncountable, plural charitablenesses)

1. (usually) The quality of being charitable.
   • The reader has seen, that my mother, notwithstanding her charitableness to the poor maid-servant, was a woman of strict morals.1840, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries
2. (countable, rare, usually) A particular kind or instance of this quality.
   • "It is a tradition. We must not be too much down on people who have been denied our own advantages." She spoke with an air of mild remonstrance. Vague charitablenesses were in her manner, and gentle expostulations.1904, Richard Pryce, The Successor: a novel, page 232
   • […] the conventionalities, the decencies, the moral behaviors sought in small group — as loyalties, fidelities, fair plays, courtesies, kindlinesses, truthfulnesses, cooperations, purities, generosities, tolerations, charitablenesses, honesties, and […]1930, David Snedden, School educations: sociological sources of values, page 70