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largesse

[lahr-jes, lahr-jis]

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noun

generous bestowal of gifts.

the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.

Obsolete. generosity; liberality.

Also, lar·gesse.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English largesse < Old French; see large, -ice

Can be confused: large, largess.

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Frugal clients might wonder if such largesse translates into marginally higher billing rates.

Knight's largesse fits with the university's mission.

The fig-leaf covering this largesse is the idea that ethanol is a clean fuel.

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Frugal clients might wonder if such largesse translates into marginally higher billing rates.

Knight's largesse fits with the university's mission.

The fig-leaf covering this largesse is the idea that ethanol is a clean fuel.

Cats still roam the popular park and adjacent campground, living off the largesse of picknicking tourists.

And perhaps it's even more perplexing that the recipient of all this largesse somehow managed to piddle it all away.

Bellissimo has taken over the building and is displaying a similar largesse.

Take away the federal largesse and they will leave the business of higher ed.

In a crowded country, where scarce fertile land is valued as gold, such largesse represented undreamt-of empowerment for the poor.

And neither you nor the recipients of your largesse need a broker to liquidate securities.

Alaska is one of the top recipients of federal largesse.

They appear, from other reports, to be subsisting on corporate welfare as well as the largesse of the rest of us.

Royal largesse was matched by countless widows' mites.

Comcast's among them, but he doesn't seem to have reaped any other reward for his largesse.

Yet when it comes to money, even the nation's scientific luminaries are inextricably tethered to public and private largesse.

But the government cannot carry on handing out such largesse for ever.

The fund was a major recipient of his philanthropic largesse in the last decade.

The government says that this largesse cannot continue.

High oil prices give petro-economies the wherewithal to counter discontent by dispensing largesse.

But progress under his rule has relied heavily on western donors' largesse.

Love the line about government largesse but can't for the life of me think of an example.

There is also the question of whether local health systems can handle the largesse being showered on them.

Looking back, however, what stands out is their largesse.

But, as the fund has found, largesse comes in many forms.

As it is, the industry's fortunes rise and fall with the level of official largesse.

Their power-hungry largesse is left to stream wastefully out onto the pavement.

We want the largesse of government, but are reluctant to pay for it.

Accordingly, this oligarch of all oligarchs began to ladle out largesse to the starving political parties.

Other donors usually insist that their largesse be spent on health or education.

American largesse has been unsuccessful in sowing the promised dream of democracy.

King has a stately facade and the feeling of wealth is in the air, it is difficult to imagine anyone needing such largesse.

Those employees do not depend on significant largesse to plump up their basic incomes.

Usually, news of such largesse would be cause for celebration.

Whether the bureaucrats can channel the public largesse efficiently is an open question.

They were fascinated by his big-city ways, his largesse and flattered by his romantic small talk.

Haider cemented his popularity with largesse that included yearly cash allowances for school children.

Of course they are also fans of the largesse of a big welfare state.

Some parents may also think it wrong to shower children with too much largesse and prefer to help other ways.

Hence the unprecedented largesse of the bank bail-out.

The recipients of this largesse include an organic food store, an optician and a bicycle shop.

His spectacular business failures were the result of his largesse and outsize lust for fun:.

The fans' excessive behavior is matched by the largesse that the alumni lavish on their teams.

Never mind the motives: the important thing is to ensure that this largesse is put to good use.

Andrews citizen, summoned the largesse to buy off the rabbit farmers.

Those who did not share in this largesse grew bitter.

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World English Dictionary

largesse or largess (lɑːˈdʒɛs)

—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 large]

largess or largess

—n

[C13: from Old French, from large]

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Word Origin & History

largesse

"gift generously given," early 13c., from O.Fr. largesse "a bounty, munificence," from V.L. *largitia "abundance," from L. largus "abundant" (see large).

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