Synonyms for Largess(e):

What are the hypernyms for Largess(e)?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largess(e) of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

Sharron Angle
Without that assured American largess(e) Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Mary Douglas
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largess(e) revolves.

Charles Williams
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess(e) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Alexander Fraser Tyler