largesse
or lar·gess
generous bestowal of gifts: Corporate sponsors can keep entire festivals and arenas alive with their largesse, so they need to be strategic about their giving.
a generous gift or gifts, such as of money: With the largesse received from these donors, the hospital has been able to purchase two new MRI machines.
generosity; liberality: He's a man of remarkable largesse of mind, heart, and soul.
Origin of largesse
1Words that may be confused with largesse
- large, largesse
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How to use largesse in a sentence
This time, they are roughly 700 uber-rich Americans and the assets that grow in value every year and make their largess even more obscene.
One Very Big Problem With the Democrats' Billionaires Tax | Philip Elliott | October 27, 2021 | TimePinto’s campaign has largely been funded by her family’s significant largess.
One doesn’t want to have to rely on the largess of other countries to protect their population.
These countries aren’t waiting for a U.S., China, or U.K. COVID vaccine | Claire Zillman, reporter | August 26, 2020 | FortuneIf rock and roll is doing its job, it should be an enemy of the state, not the recipient of its largess.
Most of that largess went to pay for advertising backing GOP candidates or attacking Democrats.
Exclusive: California Grand Jury Probing Shadowy Money Groups | Peter H. Stone | July 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Estimates have the paper operating at losses of tens of millions of dollars every year, made up by Adelson's largess.
During that robust year, Goldman employed 30,522 people and showered them with $20.2 billion of largess.
Wall Street’s Middle Class Suffers as Business Changes | Rob Cox | November 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter all, she was the recipient of the largess at the center of this case, not a director or perpetrator of it.
Anatomy of John Edwards’s Admission: His Former Speechwriter Speaks | Diane Dimond | May 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTConfiding in the accustomed largess and kindness of your Majesty, we shall say no more.
Even after Mr. Parnell had secured the allegiance of the farmer class by his great largess in the shape of 20 per cent.
But hay had always seemed to him a free largess, like grass and water, and this looked like very good hay.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas RobertsBbur left himself stripped so bare by his far-flung largess that he was nick-named Qalandar (Firishta).
The Bbur-nma in English | Babur, Emperor of HindustanBut all the banqueting and largess did not disenchant the ominous mansion.
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British Dictionary definitions for largesse
largess
/ (lɑːˈdʒɛs) /
the generous bestowal of gifts, favours, or money
the things so bestowed
generosity of spirit or attitude
Origin of largesse
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