Definition of "munificence"

munificence¹

/mjuːˈnɪfɪsəns/

noun
usually uncountable, plural munificences
1. The quality of being munificent; generosity.
  Quotations
  And surely, no form of munificence should entitle to a more grateful and lasting remembrance, than that which promotes the right education of youth;...
  1845, Lydia Sigourney, Scenes in my Native Land, The Great Oak of Geneseo, pages 86–87

munificence²

/mjuːˈnɪfɪsəns/

noun
1. (obsolete) Means of defence; fortification.
  Quotations
  Untill that Locrine for his Realmes defence, Did head against them make and strong munificence
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie