largesse
lar-ZHESnounMeaning generous giving, or the gifts given
Memory hook LARGE-ESS: LARGE gifts. From the castle wall, the queen tosses down a large sack of bread and coins for the whole village; generous giving that large is largesse.
Every December the baker’s largesse filled the shelter’s tables with bread and pies.
In context The tiny library survived on the largesse of one devoted reader, who paid for new books every year and asked for nothing in return.
Similar generosity, bounty, gifts, charity
Opposite stinginess, miserliness
From French largesse, from large (generous, open-handed).