Crossword clues for bountifulness
bountifulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bountiful \Boun"ti*ful\, a.
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Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
God, the bountiful Author of our being.
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Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
Syn: Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. [1913 Webster] -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Boun"ti*ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being bountiful.
WordNet
Usage examples of "bountifulness".
In his boyhood he had been famous for his bountifulness in scattering silver and gold.
My reading of the world's history seems to teach me that when a strong people take possession of a fertile land, they reduce it to cultivation, thrive upon its bountifulness, multiply into millions the mouths to be fed from it, tax it to the last limit of production of the necessities of life, take from it continually, and give nothing back, starve and overwork it as cruel, grasping men do a servant or a beast, and when at last it breaks down under the strain, it revenges itself by starving many of them with great famines, while the others go off in search of new countries to put through the same process of exhaustion.