Adjective

(en adjective)

Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

(of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.

* 1859 , , 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, " 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, , " 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.

Very generous; lavish.

* 1886 , , 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 , , 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, " 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.