Definition of "openhanded"
openhanded
adjective
comparative more openhanded, superlative most openhanded
Alternative form of open-handed
Quotations
Quotations
Yet he understood nothing of real magnanimity; his charity was part of an openhanded recklessness, which made him fling the goods of fortune to the wind as soon as gained—part of the character of grand seigneur he aspired to assume.
1888, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy - Volume 5, page 400
Quotations
Arm-in-arm with religious liberals stand a legion of openhanded political liberals, humanists, and, of course, homosexuals themselves, all of whom passionately embrace homosexuality as a morally and constitutionally justified “alternative lifestyle."
2006, Hal Brunson, Lesbos, Narcissus, and Paulos, page ix
Quotations
The iconic flower of love could be found in every state of its life cycle -- tender green shoots with tiny green thorns that looked like baby teeth, buds determined not to reveal themselves any sooner than necessary, fresh blooms that resemble sleepers just opening their eyes, and full blosssoms with the openhanded beauty of an old person's wrinkled face.
2012, T.D. Jakes, Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
adverb
comparative more openhanded, superlative most openhanded
Alternative form of open-handed
Quotations
He leaves the mild Alexander to continue, under the pressure of fraternal competition, the hereditary policy of Peter and Catherine; to raise levy after levy, loan after loan, ineffectually, while loans of any amount required are given openhanded by the people of France and England to their governments and the seas of the world remain open to the commerce of the Allies.
1856, The Living Age - Volume 48, page 502