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large-handed, a.
(Stress variable.)
†1. fig. Grasping, rapacious. Obs.
1607Shakes. Timon iv. i. 11 Large-handed Robbers your graue Masters are.
2. fig. Generous, liberal, open-handed.
a1628[implied in large-handedness]. 1885Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Large-handed charity.
3. lit. Having large hands.
1896O. Schreiner in Fortnightly Rev. Aug. 233 They [Boers] are generally large-limbed, large-handed men.
Hence large-ˈhandedness (in quot. ? lavishness, or ? rapacity).
a1628F. Greville Sidney xvi. (1652) 208 Shee watched over the nimble Spirits, selfe-seeking or large handednesse of her active Secretaries. |