largess
Use Largess in a sentence
dʒɪs noun
1.
generous bestowal of gifts.
2.
the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
3.
Obsolete. generosity; liberality.
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largesse or largess (lɑːˈdʒɛs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the generous bestowal of gifts, favours, or money |
| 2. | the things so bestowed |
| 3. | generosity of spirit or attitude |
| [C13: from Old French, from | |
| largess or largess | |
| —n | |
| [C13: from Old French, from | |
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Largess
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Even many companies that are geographically removed from the disaster are responding with remarkable largess.
Computer science has traditionally been richly funded by government largess.
If there must be more highways, let them be private and paid for by users, not with federal largess.
Whether such largess is found in fashion designers, let alone those who qualify as couturiers, is open to debate.
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