Largesse

Quick meaning: Largesse is a noun meaning The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time; generosity, liberality.

Meaning

The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time; generosity, liberality.

More Meanings

1. Money, etc., given in this way.
2. Abundance of something (chiefly beneficial), regarded as having been given generously.
3. Chiefly in the form at one's largesse: freedom or liberty to act.
4. An act of donating or giving generously.
5. A specific gift of money, etc., given in this way, specifically (historical) at harvest time; a donation, a gratuity.
6. Often preceded by do, give, or make: the generous or liberal giving of gifts or money, especially by someone of high standing on a special occasion; also, excessive or wasteful giving.

Example Sentences

But the dynasty of the Gothic king is in equity and compassion, and his arithmetic is in largesse.

In such case, certainly I would accept / Your bounty: better I than alien hearts / Should execute your planned benevolence / To man, your proposed largess to the Church.

Yet half mankind maintain a churliſh ſtrife / VVith him, the donor of eternal life, / Becauſe the deed by vvhich his love confirms / The largeſs he beſtovvs, preſcribes the terms.

[F]or our coffers vvith too great a court, / And liberall larges are grovven ſomevvhat light, / VVe are inforſt to farm our royall Realme, / The reuenevv vvhereof ſhall furniſh vs, / For our affaires in hand […]

Word Forms

• largesses
• largess

Synonyms for largesse

Depending on context, synonyms include benevolence, munificence, bounty, magnanimity, largess, openhandedness.

Antonyms for largesse

Common opposites include miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess, tightfistedness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include munificence, largess, magnanimity, openhandedness, kindness, generosity.

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