Definition of "munificent" []

• Very liberal in giving; generous. (adjective)
• Showing great generosity: a munificent gift. See Synonyms at liberal. (adjective)

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• "Chinese lady well known as a munificent patron of the faith, and I believe another at Nanking, but I do not know if it is complete or not [757]."
• ".."munificent" would probably better express my thought..."
• "As an instance of the wild liberality of the age, we are informed, that Henry the "munificent" Count of Champagne, being applied to by a poor gentleman for a portion to enable him to marry his two daughters: his steward remonstrated to him, "that he had given away every thing," "thou _liest_," said Henry, "I have _thee_ left;" so he delivered over the steward to the petitioner, who put him into confinement until he gave him 500 livres, a handsome sum in those days."