Largesse

/lɑːˈ(d)ʒɛs/

Synonyms for "largesse" (34 found)

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donationendowmentgraftgrantkickbackpatronageresearch grantscholarship fund

Collocations

6 entries
charitable largessecorporate largessegovernment largesselavish largessepublic largessestate largesse

Inflections

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Derivations

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Translations

9 translations across 8 languages.

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Czech

1 entries
  • dar noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Dutch

1 entries
  • gulle giften noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Finnish

2 entries
  • lahja noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)
  • lahjaraha noun ((uncountable) money, etc., given in this way)

French

1 entries
  • largesses noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Italian

1 entries
  • elargizione noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Latin

1 entries
  • largītiō noun ((uncountable) money, etc., given in this way)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • по́дарок noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Māori

1 entries
  • whakahiku noun ((countable) specific gift of money, etc., given in this way)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

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Thou shalt be generous, and give largesse to everyone.

Source: tatoeba (3769277)

Their assistance would arrive as a 400-kilometer, $5.9 billion China-invested railway is set for completion this year — the pinnacle of Chinese largesse for Laos.

Source: tatoeba (11113287)

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

Source: tatoeba (13635819)

There is no creature impure or vncleane, yf the conſcience of hym that vſeth it be pure and cleane. And albeit there were any impuritie in the meate, yet with himnes wherwith the larges of god is prayſed before meate and with holy wordes and prayers it ſhoulde be made holy and pure, that before was vncleane.

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