Definition of "munificent"
munificent
adjective
comparative more munificent, superlative most munificent
(of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
Quotations
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: […]
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 272
An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
2008 March 20, Martin Filler, “Broad-Minded Museum”, in New York Review of Books, retrieved 5 Sept 2013