Definition of Bouty
Boun"ty, n.; pl.
Bounties (&?;). [OE. bounte goodness, kindness, F.
bonté, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- generosity
- something given liberally
- A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority
- (nautical) money paid to volunteers for serving in the British navy in time of war
- Note: this ended in 1857
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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