largesse definition | what is largesse-meaning | define largesse in a sentence

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gifts

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generous giving of gifts, favors or money

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generosity in spirit or attitude

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Kim slunk away, his teeth in the bread, and, as he expected, he found a small wad of folded tissue-paper wrapped in oilskin, with three silver rupees - enormous largesse.

(source: Rudyard Kipling in 'Kim')

 

Then, scattering apologies broadcast like a medieval monarch distributing largesse, Bill whirled his partner round by sheer muscular force and began what he intended to be a movement toward the farther corner, skirting the edge of the floor.

(source: Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse in 'Uneasy Money')

 

Like Zuma, some of his supporters in the labor movement have also benefited from the financial largesse of powerful business leaders.

(source: Voice of America news broadcast)

 

It is not that the current form of Saudi aid and largesse is bad: to the contrary many are benefiting directly from it

(source: Voice of America news broadcast)

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A purchase of American planes could be viewed by Moscow as lack of gratitude by India, after Soviet largesse allowed the country to build a military muscular enough to keep the Pakistanis and Chinese at bay for decades.

(source: Voice of America news broadcast)

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He is an artist of imaginative largesse.