largess
or lar·gesse
Origin of largess
Related Words for largess
gift, giving, philanthropy, donation, alms, aid, benefaction, endowment, charity, altruistic, benevolent, charitable, generous, thoughtfulExamples from the Web for largess
Contemporary Examples of largess
If 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.
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.
After all, she was the recipient of the largess at the center of this case, not a director or perpetrator of it.
Historical Examples of largess
I will give you both, and never boast of my largess in so doing.
Imaginary Conversations and PoemsWalter Savage Landor
We must conceive of ourselves as transmitters of the largess of music to our children.
Montessori Elementary MaterialsMaria Montessori
Once more the ancient cry of "Largess" is, as it were, revived.
Having concluded, they stepped forward for the largess promised.
Confessions of a ThugPhilip Meadows Taylor
The usual payment to the heralds for their largess seems to have been a hundred shillings.
ChristmastideWilliam Sandys