bounteousnessn.
The quality of being bounteous or liberal; liberality, munificence.
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the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [noun] > liberality
freedomOE
custinessOE
largesse?c1225
freeshipa1250
franchisec1325
largitya1382
largenessa1387
liberalityc1390
bountya1400
honestya1400
freenessc1400
largec1400
liberalnessc1410
munificencec1425
plentyc1425
bounteousnessc1440
magnificencec1450
bountifulness1489
bountines1512
royalty1548
magnificency?c1550
munificency?c1550
free-heartedness1583
profuseness1584
bountihead1590
lavishness1590
frankness1591
ingenuousness1611
fruitfulnessa1616
generosity1634
open-handednessa1640
large-heartedness1640
communicativeness1653
unsparingness1818
free-handedness1860
big-heartedness1872
ungrudgingness1885
two-handedness1891
outgivingness1968
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 46 Bontyvasnesse [1499 bountyuousnesse] munificentia, liberalitas.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 209 Heyll, prynse of bovntyows-nesse!
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxviii. 11) A signe of hys bounteouseness in watering the land with seasonable rayne.
1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 34 Then drink and praise thy bounteousness.
1870 C. M. Yonge Cameos c, in Monthly Packet May 430 Warwick occupied the chief place in the eyes of the nation, from his exceeding bounteousness to the poor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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