Openhanded

adj, adv, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of open-handed.; Done with an open hand.

    "In the painting, the enslaved and (as conjectured by historian Steven Weisenburger) sexually abused Margaret Garner betrays her liaison with her owner Archibald Gaines with an exposed, openhanded gesture toward him."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of open-handed.; Generous.

    "In the economic realm, because of its temporary preponderance, the United States could afford to be openhanded."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of open-handed.; Frank and tolerant.

    "Let selling be an openhanded selling, with justly balanced scales and price which do not prejudice either party, buyer or seller."

  4. 4
    Alternative form of open-handed.; Loose and full.

    "We believe the majority of Swiss guides use the Swiss loop at the end of the rope, and the openhanded loop in the middle."

Adjective
  1. 1
    given or giving freely wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of open-handed.; With an open hand or hands.

    "Patterson smacks her openhanded on the side of the head."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of open-handed.; Generously.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of openhand form-of, participle, past

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