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LARGESSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does largesse mean?
• LARGESSE (noun)
The noun LARGESSE has 2 senses:
1. a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously
2. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
Familiarity information: LARGESSE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
largess; largesse
Hypernyms ("largesse" is a kind of...):
gift (something acquired without compensation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
largess; largesse; magnanimity; munificence; openhandedness
Hypernyms ("largesse" is a kind of...):
liberality; liberalness (the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament)
Context examples
It is a most knightly largesse, and yet withouten money how can man rise?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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