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largess

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lar·gess also lar·gesse  (lär-zhs, -js, lärjs)
n.
1.
a. Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.
b. Money or gifts bestowed.
2. Generosity of spirit or attitude.
[Middle English largesse, from Old French, from large, generous, from Latin largus.]
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Noun1.largess - a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously
largesse
gift - something acquired without compensation
2.largess - liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness, largesse
liberality, liberalness - the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament


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Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
There was no slavery about it; and though he, a strong man beyond strength's seeming, gave far more than he received, he gave not something due but in royal largess, his gifts of toil or heroic effort falling generously from his hands.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
Largess, in the form of odds and ends of cold cream and pomatum, and also of hairpins, was freely distributed among the attendants.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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