[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being bounteous or liberal; liberality, munificence.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 46. Bontyvasnesse [1499 bountyuousnesse] munificentia, liberalitas.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 209. Heyll, prynse of bovntyows-nesse!
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 11. A signe of hys bounteouseness in watering the land with seasonable rayne.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., 151. Poor herbs drink and praise thy bounteousness.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), III. xv. 126. Warwick occupied the chief place in the eyes of the nation, from his exceeding bounteousness to the poor.
