Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BOUN'TI-FUL
BOUN'TE-OUS-NESSBOUN'TI-FUL-LY
BOUN'TI-FUL, a. [bounty and full.]
Free to give; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors; munificent; generous. God, the bountiful author of our being. – Locke. It is followed by of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving.
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