Bounty: alternatives and connections

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to in…

An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilat…

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.

In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; thi…

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.

Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamit…

A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth cent…

Goodness; generosity.

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a can…

One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…

To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"