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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.

God, the

bountiful

Author of our being.

Locke.

Plentiful; abundant;

as, a

bountiful

supply of food

Syn. – Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous.

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Boun′ti-ful-ly

adv.

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Boun′ti-ful-ness

Noun.

Adj.

[bounty and full.] Free to give; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors; munificent; generous.

God, the bountiful author of our being.

It is followed by of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving.