Munificent

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]. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

.."munificent" would probably better express my thought... ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne. ❋ Fiona Maddocks (2010)

Take away the munificent overflow of American largesse and economic power from the world and Europe would see another dark age indeed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We know that local councils are strapped for cash but such a munificent gesture from the councillors also seems somewhat improbable! ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Is that their coach or Jim Nantz's intern?" and the university awarded young head coach Brad Stevens a munificent, 12-year contract, nobody really thought the plucky Indianapolis school would be back so soon. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

Even with all those munificent dividend payments, my net worth has dropped by a third, and new vistas of worry open up for me each day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sure enough Warner junior is – like his dad – a munificent distributor of football's largesse: he is listed on the Fifa website as a regional officer of the Goal bureau that dispenses Fifa's development funds to member associations. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was for several years Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, to which, as well as to Glasgow University, he was a munificent benefactor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Friday's party was catered by Alan Jackson, and it was munificent, stations set up all over the sound stage. ❋ Jay Weston (2012)

Sandel was Youth, and he threw his strength away with the munificent abandon of Youth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You know perfectly well what motivates me: the sense of mourning for the loss of a more civilized world, pre-war, when the English bourgeoisie was a munificent, kindly, good-humored, and enlightened people, quite unlike its French counterpart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The U.S. auctioned $28 billion worth of four-week bills on Wednesday paying a munificent yield of 0%. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cipriani lent him the munificent sum of 10,000 liras some $5,000, never expecting to get the money back. ❋ Jay Weston (2011)

The [Leipzig] museum was erected with part of the munificent [bequest] made to the city by Dominic [Grassi] in 1881. ❋ Dad Cranney (2022)