释义 |
ˈbounteousness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being bounteous or liberal; liberality, munificence.
c1440Promp. Parv. 46 Bontyvasnesse [1499 bountyuousnesse] munificentia, liberalitas. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 209 Heyll, prynse of bovntyows-nesse! 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 11 A signe of hys bounteouseness in watering the land with seasonable rayne. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. 151 Poor herbs drink and praise thy bounteousness. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. xv. 126 Warwick occupied the chief place in the eyes of the nation, from his exceeding bounteousness to the poor. |