Boon vs Liberality - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
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(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
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* 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
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(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
kind; bountiful; benign
* Milton
gay; merry; jovial; convivial
* Arbuthnot
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
A gift; a gratuity.
Boon is a related term of liberality.
As nouns the difference between boon and liberality
is that boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching while liberality is the property of being liberal; generosity; charity.As an adjective boon
is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".boon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For which to God he made so many an idle boon
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
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Synonyms
* blessing * benefitAntonyms
* baneEtymology 2
From (etyl) boon, bone, from .Adjective
(-)- Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
Quotations
* Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain — * A boon companion, loving his bottle —Etymology 3
From Gaelic and Irish via Scots.Noun
(-)Anagrams
* * ----liberality
English
Noun
(en-noun)- That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. — Denham.
- A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities .