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3 definitions found 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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