[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being bountiful; generous liberality, bounteousness.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., I. xxi. 66. The whiche for example of hys bountefulnes we soo often remembre.
1558. Act 1 Eliz., iv. § 29. The Queen … of her abundant Grace and Bountifulness, is pleased [etc.].
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 117. To give praise for the love and bountifulness of our merciful Father.
