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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounty \Boun"ty\, n.; pl {Bounties}. [OE. bounte goodness,
kindness, F. bont['e], fr L. bonitas, fr bonus good, for
older duonus cf Skr. duvas honor, respect.]
1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.]
Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
--Gower.
2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or
liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea. --Shak.
3. That which is given generously or liberally. ``Thy morning
bounties.'' --Cowper.
4. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into
the public service; or to encourage any branch of
industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
{Bounty jumper}, one who during the latter part of the Civil
War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted
as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.]
{Queen Anne's bounty} (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen
Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.
Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bounty
n 1: payment or reward (esp from a government) for acts such as
catching criminals or killing predatory animals or
enlisting in the military [syn: {premium}]
2: the property of copious abundance [syn: {amplitude}, {bountifulness}]
3: generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely [syn: {bounteousness}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much in permitting one who
has nothing to get all that he can.
A single swallow, it is said devours ten millions of insects
every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal
instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His
creatures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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