largesse
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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generosity; liberality.
He's a man of remarkable largesse of mind, heart, and soul.
noun
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the generous bestowal of gifts, favours, or money
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the things so bestowed
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generosity of spirit or attitude
Etymology
Origin of largesse
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English largesse, from Old French; large, -ice
Example Sentences
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And yet there’s something admirable in their scrappy monumentality, particularly during this time of Hollywood largesse for franchises and austerity for just about everything else.
How much longer such welcome largesse can continue, I wouldn’t want to wager.
It’s unfortunate that the driver of this BMW, the person who accepted such largesse from his relative, wants to be paid $1,500 from a friend who kindly cosigned his loan.
From MarketWatch
That largesse can be redeployed in the form of lower interest rates to support households and small and medium-size businesses.
Around the same time, the Milwaukee Brewers responded to the Dodgers’ largesse with a move of their own that received considerably less attention.
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