bounty
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English bounte (“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté (“goodness, kindness”)), from Latin bonitās.
Inflected forms:
form: bounties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bounties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bountying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bountied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bountied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [H]is [Henry I, Duke of Guise's] gifts, though conferred for the interest of his ambition, appeared always scattered with an easy bounty.
She embraced Elizabeth and said in a voice of half-suppressed emotion, "Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make others so."
The enervating character of the climate, combined with the bounty of nature, which supplies the limited wants of the natives, in return for little labor, has from time immemorial produced a population within these zones essentially inefficient as compared with that of the temperate zone.
gloss: Something given liberally; a gift.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [...] We have given and granted, and by theſe Preſents for Us, Our Heirs, and Succeſſors, do give and grant unto the ſaid Governors of the Bounty of Queen ANNE, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy, hereby conſtituted, and their Succeſſors, all the Revenues of Firſt Fruits and yearly perpetual Tenths of all Dignities, Offices, Benefices, and Promotions Spiritual whatſoever, [...]
That in this age of boasted liberality, of peculiar Christian effort, of enlightened intelligence, and, let us add, in this free Commonwealth, the church should not be allowed to receive, use, control, and appropriate the bounties and charities of its pious friends, which accompany their prayers for her prosperity, we confess has not a little alarmed and astonished us.
gloss: A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Let us therefore conſider ſeparately the encouraging of exportation of corn by bounties, the allowing it to be exported without any bounty, and the prohibiting it to be exported at all in certain caſes— [...] It is not for the ſake of the farmer, but for the good of the nation at large, that this bounty [for exporting corn] is granted. The idea is, that it is more adviſeable to have food raiſed at home, than to truſt to other countries for the neceſſaries of life; and the bounty is held out as a temptation to the farmer, to induce him to raiſe at leaſt a ſufficiency of corn.
In addition to the above reservations, a number of small conditional grants were made to the descendants of Indians and white persons, forming a mixed race, [...]. Particular care was taken by the commissioners, when these grants were made, to confine the bounty of government to those alone who had claims to consideration, or their descendants, on account of services rendered, either by restraining the Indians from war, or in producing peace. [...] Particular care was taken, in agreeing to these grants, that the bounty extended to the individuals who were thus favored, should not be abused.
In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.
gloss: A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
examples: Whatever may be said in favor of bounties on the larger beasts of prey, those on hawks, owls, and the smaller fur-bearing animals can not be justified. Payments of this sort should cease, and laws should be enacted to protect species which careful investigations have shown to be mainly beneficial. [...] The payment of bounties on hawks of any kind is open to the objection that officials hardly ever discriminate between the harmful and the useful kinds, even when the statutes do so. [...] The bounty on owls is still more reprehensible, since owls are a more decided check to rodent increase.
In her six years as a bounty hunter she witnessed many things. Professional gunfighters who worked for hire. A U.S. Marshal who walked into a bar where five killers waited for him and strolled out a few minutes later with a warm gun in his hand and five bodies to bring back to Colorado.
Nationwide surveys showed a decline in numbers [of crocodiles] from a variety of factors including dams in rivers, killing for skins and for bounties.
Adam yawned. He and Matt had been drinking and talking the past few hours, mainly of the Underdog's bounty experiences.
Many practices have long since become unnecessary or fallen from favour. For example, in the case of bubonic plague, bounties were paid to rat-catchers, who were required to kill the fleas on dead rats by dropping the rats into boiling water.
gloss: A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: It was in the army to which bounties were thus given to privates, that the memorialists were officers; and gallant officers the history of that war amply proves they were. If the soldiers of that army and even the heirs of those who volunteered their services for a given and short period, but who were killed or died in service, had such large recognized claims on the bounty of the nation, it is not, [...] easily to be perceived why their officers, [...] have not claims equally strong.
There is, in this case, not a particle of evidence tending even to show that the soldier ever received any bounty or gratuity on account of any or all of his service except $66.66, two-thirds of the amount of bounty payable under the act of July 22, 1861, [...]
gloss: An abundance or wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: The bounty of Texas consists of a state full of rich living and traditions, stretching centuries back to the Indians, through the Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglos, to all the many nationalities that moved in and then spread out through Texas and the Southwest.
America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.
She [Kate Spade] would come to attach her name to a bounty of products, and ideas: home goods and china and towels and so much else, all of it poised atop the thin line between accessibility and luxury.
gloss: To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: boon
bounteous
bounteously
bounteousness
bounteth
bountith
bountyhed
unbounteous
Derived words: bountiful
bountifull
bountifully
bountifulness
bountihead
bountihood
Bountygate
bounty hunter
bounty jumper
bountyless
unbountiful
unbountifully
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُكَافَأَة
roman: mukāfaʔa
lang: Arabic
word: جَائِزَة
roman: jāʔiza
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 獎金 /奖金
roman: jiǎngjīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 賞金 /赏金
roman: shǎngjīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 贈款 /赠款
roman: zèngkuǎn
lang: Finnish
word: palkkio
lang: Finnish
word: tapporaha
lang: French
word: prime
lang: German
word: Belohnung
lang: German
word: Kopfgeld
lang: German
word: Prämie
lang: Greek
word: αμοιβή
roman: amoiví
lang: Greek
word: πριμοδότηση
roman: primodótisi
lang: Italian
word: premio
lang: Italian
word: ricompensa
lang: Italian
word: taglia
lang: Japanese
word: 賞金
roman: shōkin
lang: Japanese
word: 奨励金
roman: shōreikin
lang: Korean
word: 상금
roman: sanggeum
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: belønning
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dusør
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: påskjønnelse
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: dusør
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: påskjøning
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: påskjønning
lang: Persian
word: پاداش
roman: pādāš
lang: Persian
word: پادافراه
roman: pādāfrāh
lang: Portuguese
word: recompensa
lang: Romanian
word: recompensă
lang: Russian
word: вознагражде́ние
roman: voznagraždénije
lang: Russian
word: пре́мия
roman: prémija
lang: Russian
word: награ́да
roman: nagráda
lang: Spanish
word: recompensa
lang: Swedish
word: belöning
lang: Tagalog
word: pabuya
lang: Tagalog
word: gantimpala
lang: Thai
word: สินบน
roman: sǐn-bon
lang: Turkish
word: armağan
lang: Turkish
word: yakalama ödülü
lang: Turkish
word: ödül
lang: Vietnamese
word: thưởng kim
lang: Welsh
word: haelioni