Definitions for largess

largess lar·gess

Spelling: [lahr-jes, lahr-jis]
IPA: /lɑrˈdʒɛs, ˈlɑr dʒɪs/

Largess is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in largess (aeglrss).

Definitions for largess

noun

  1. generous bestowal of gifts.
  2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
  3. Obsolete. generosity; liberality.

Origin of largess

1175-1225; Middle English largesse Old French; see large, -ice

Examples for largess

The usual payment to the heralds for their largess seems to have been a hundred shillings.

Having concluded, they stepped forward for the largess promised.

Once more the ancient cry of "largess" is, as it were, revived.

During that robust year, Goldman employed 30,522 people and showered them with $20.2 billion of largess.

Most of that largess went to pay for advertising backing GOP candidates or attacking Democrats.

Estimates have the paper operating at losses of tens of millions of dollars every year, made up by Adelson's largess.

We must conceive of ourselves as transmitters of the largess of music to our children.

I will give you both, and never boast of my largess in so doing.

After all, she was the recipient of the largess at the center of this case, not a director or perpetrator of it.

If rock and roll is doing its job, it should be an enemy of the state, not the recipient of its largess.

Word Value for largess
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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