largess definition | what is largess-meaning | define largess 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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Largess, in the form of odds and ends of cold cream and pomatum, and also of hairpins, was freely distributed among the attendants.

(source: Charles Dickens in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood')

 

After long years of internal strife, Afghanistan is at a historical moment at which it can once again achieve unity and receive largess from the world community to reconstruct itself

(source: Voice of America news broadcast)

 

He distributed the documents at random with the air of a preoccupied monarch scattering largess to the mob, and the subsequent chaos had to be handled by a wrathful head of the department in person.

(source: Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse in 'The Man Upstairs and Other Stories')

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It was his day of royal largess.

(source: Jack London in 'The Valley of the Moon')

He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his

(source: Jack London in 'Michael, Brother of Jerry')

There was no slavery about it; and though he, a strong man beyond strength's seeming, gave far more than he received, he gave not something due but in royal largess, his gifts of toil or heroic effort falling generously from his hands.

(source: Jack London in 'Burning Daylight')

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He is a writer of imaginative largess.