bountihead

English

Alternative forms

bountihed

Etymology

From bounty +‎ -head.

Noun

bountihead (uncountable)

Bounteousness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto X:
  How shall fraile pen, with feare disparaged, / Conceiue such soueraine glory, and great bountihed?

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