largess

Part of speech: noun

A gift; gratuity; bounty.

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Usage examples "largess":

  1. These words were of my Leader; whence I prayed him That he would give me largess of the food, For which he had given me largess of desire. - "Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete", Dante Alighieri.
  2. William rarely returned from an appointment or from visiting among his flock that he did not bring with him some largess of their kindness. - "A Circuit Rider's Wife", Corra Harris.
  3. Are you bound by your Arabian bounty to a largess whenever you think of your friend? - "The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.", Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson.