munificent

Definition

Very liberal in giving or bestowing.

Etymology

Back-formation from munificence, from Latin mūnificentia.

Example Sentences

• "Munificent as he was in his own disposition in the conferring of favours, his acceptance, under the circumstances we have described, of the fortune bestowed by Robert, he found upon reasoning with himself to be perfectly consistent with the most scrupulous principles of uprightness and probity:[…]"
• "Tellson's Bank […] was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate."
• "[M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S."

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