munificent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
munificent
- (of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 30:
- Tellson's Bank . . . was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
- 1974 April 8, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908529,00.html Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream]," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
- 2008 March 20, Martin Filler, "Broad-Minded Museum ↗," New York Review of Books (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 30:
- (of a gift, donation, etc.) Very generous; lavish.
- 1886, Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, ch. 1:
- On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
- 1914, William MacLeod Raine, A Daughter of the Dons, ch. 25:
- It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
- 1969 April 11, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900773,00.html?promoid=googlep Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages]," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
- 1886, Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, ch. 1:
- German: freigebig
- Italian: munifico
- Russian: ще́дрый
- Spanish: generoso, desprendido, dadivoso, munificente
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