Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being bounteous; liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; munificence; kindness.

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  • noun The characteristic of being bounteous.

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  • noun generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely

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Examples

  • Adapting to Nature's suddenly proffered fruitful bounteousness.

    Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted 2009

  • Dunno about the legalities of it all, but I rather like the phrase, “exceptionally nonsensical bounteousness.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Um, Talk About Trackbacks! 2009

  • The themes are still the same where sleep evades; your warmth is shared with bounteousness unchanged in all these years – I cling to edges of your reverie, listening, jealous in a sense, aware your mood is equally as clear to me.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • The themes are still the same where sleep evades; your warmth is shared with bounteousness unchanged in all these years – I cling to edges of your reverie, listening, jealous in a sense, aware your mood is equally as clear to me.

    Solidity And Harmony Hold Hands Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • The charm of the detail tempted one to linger at every turn, and all the more so because I knew that I should see nothing more of the grace and bounteousness of Nature till my projected descent into Kulu in the late autumn.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • And this peaceful studio with its rural horizon was at once filled with a surfeit of delight such as a child might feel in a house where he was already happily playing when he learned that, in addition, out of that bounteousness which enables lovely things and noble hosts to increase their gifts beyond all measure, there was being prepared for him a sumptuous repast.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • To counteract these evils, which were great enough to have ruined any European state in a couple of years, there was, however, the marvellous prodigality of nature -- a bounteousness and richness in the yield of the soil and the depths of the earth hardly equalled in any other part of the world, and in consequence princely fortunes were accumulated in an incredibly short space of time.

    The Dominion in 1983 Ralph Centennius

  • Had some Trollope chanced then to be travelling through that quarter, and been entertained by the disappointed proprietor with all the noble bounteousness which distinguished him, we can easily imagine how this fact would have figured in his book, as a proof of unconquerable negro laziness.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • And then there was about her a certain bounteousness.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • Perhaps, then, he suggests, they are due to the very bounteousness of God.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

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