largesse

noun7

1. •
   Often preceded by do, give, or make: the generous or liberal giving of gifts or money, especially by someone of high standing on a special occasion; also, excessive or wasteful giving.

   • In such case, certainly I would accept / Your bounty: better I than alien hearts / Should execute your planned benevolence / To man, your proposed largess to the Church. — 1873
2. •
   An act of donating or giving generously.

   • So these losing the true glory of virtue vvhich every one ought to have, flie to that vvhich depends upon complaisance vvith others, courting vulgar applause vvith Largesses and feasts. — 1655
3. •
   The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time; generosity, liberality.

   • But the dynasty of the Gothic king is in equity and compassion, and his arithmetic is in largesse. — 1873
4. •
   Money, etc., given in this way.

   • Yet half mankind maintain a churlish strife / VVith him, the donor of eternal life, / Because the deed by vvhich his love confirms / The largess he bestovvs, prescribes the terms. — 1782
5. •
   A specific gift of money, etc., given in this way, specifically (historical) at harvest time; a donation, a gratuity.

   • Giue gloues to thy reapers, a larges to crie, / And dailie to loiterers haue a good eie. — 1878
6. •
   (figurative) Abundance of something (chiefly beneficial), regarded as having been given generously.

   • I have not lacked thy mild reproof, / Nor golden largess of thy praise, / But life is full of weary days. — 1832
7. •
   (no longer used) Chiefly in the form at one's largesse: freedom or liberty to act.