largesse

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What makes possible global trade, which turns into American wealth, which turns into unparalleled American largesse, is American might - American might and an American commitment to use that might as necessary to ensure a civilized global order.

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  1. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
  2. a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously

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  • All she had of the royal largesse was a rented house, a few sticks of furniture, and some pin money. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • The masses wanted the state to provide for them in every way, and the politicians who promised the most largesse were the ones who were elected. —  ConsenttoKill
  • He opened his hands displaying largesse, the world his to be handed out to the deserving. —  process 10
  • "To suggest that this one organization needed $700,000 of secretarial largesse is a slap in the face of every organization that is struggling right now," Laing said. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain. ' —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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