bounty = "splendid abundance"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Remember it's the same individual who wrote "behemothic."

JL

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I agree with Joel.
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Isn't this 4.a., "gracious liberality, munificence"?  E.g., "1750
> > JOHNSON Rambl. No. 17 {page}4 Every other satisfaction which the
> > bounty of Providence has scattered over life." or "1856 FROUDE Hist.
> > Eng. (1858) I. iv. 302 Many of these people..were dependent on his
> > bounty."?  Or 5.b. "a boon, gift"?
> >
> > Joel
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> > At 1/15/2009 05:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >>Not in OED:
> >>
> >>2008 _The Top 10 Intelligent Designs_ [
> >>http://www.livescience.com/history/top10_intelligent_designs-1.html]:
> With
> >>its bounty of brawny, barrel-chested gods and buxom goddesses, the
> ancient
> >>Norse religion of the Scandinavian and Germanic countries is truly the
> >>creation myth for fans of both pro wrestling and heavy metal music.
> >>
> >>JL
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