(n.) The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.
(n.) Liberality in giving; munificence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generosity of your readers ensures these young people have a greater chance of a positive future."
(2) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(4) Reductions in the generosity of fee-for-service insurance lower the use of general medical and mental health services, but do they lead to lower mental health status for the covered population?
(5) The Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right thinktank, said there was a huge difference between generosity, as practised by Warren Buffett, and compulsory taxation.
(6) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(7) Everyone was taken aback by Harrison's generosity, not least Idle.
(8) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
(9) Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
(10) He said the UK legal aid system “is pretty much at the top of the tree in generosity” compared with the rest of Europe, but it was now necessary to get the multi-million pound budget under control.
(11) At least in the country we live in, there's an acceptance and a generosity and inclusiveness which has allowed us to accept alien cultures and learn from them.
(12) A dentist not so red in tooth and claw | Letters Read more WildCRU’s director, Prof David Macdonald, said the team would devote themselves to working for the conservation of lions following the “incredible generosity”.
(13) For instance, is it the greater generosity of the Swedish system--in Sweden, the share of drug reimbursement expenditures to total drug consumption is 57%, as against 33% in Norway, 38% in Finland and 34% in Denmark--that makes drug consumption per capita so much higher in Sweden?
(14) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(15) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(16) Their amazing generosity and hopefulness despite everything they’ve been through.
(17) If you don't turn up for work, you can be docked a day's pay – and whether you will or not largely depends on your boss's generosity.
(18) I’ve still got the blisters.” Still, that’s the virtue of a two-year campaign – during which Davis has been an unpaid, full-time candidate, who survives, as she puts it, on “debt and generosity.” It gives you time to try things.
(19) 4.15pm GMT There continues to be some controversy over the generosity of Plyushchenko’s scores.
(20) The development of higher education in Britain, and almost everywhere else, has been fundamentally driven by demands for the progressive enlargement of the educational “franchise”, responded to by the state initially with generosity but now with grudging resistance.
Munificence
Definition:
(n.) Means of defense; fortification.
(n.) The quality or state of being munificent; a giving or bestowing with extraordinary liberality; generous bounty; lavish generosity.
Example Sentences:
(1) His munificent patronage allowed Gehry to develop the technical tools and computer know-how that he would go on to employ on the Guggenheim Museum, and countless other projects since then.
(2) The majority of North Koreans depend not on the regime’s munificence but on market forces – they have already found this a more successful alternative, despite a disproportionate lack of international support or awareness.
(3) Many of these private contractors, such as Atos and G4S, pay little or no corporation tax, even as they benefit from state munificence.
(4) Theresa May’s cuddling up to Donald Trump is likely to result in a trade deal that will make the defeated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership look munificent.
(5) As and when that happens, on the assumption that wages are hardly likely to skyrocket, tight household budgets could start to snap, and we may well be faced with echoes of 2007-8: mortgage defaults, a sudden crisis of confidence – and, this time, no munificent government to clear up the mess.
(6) All boats will float on a tide of US munificence that could scarcely have been foreseen last year, when the polls put Trump well behind Clinton.
(7) It sees growth as an exclusively south-eastern engine which, in its great munificence, powers the rest of the country – which must make do with a sliver of London's transport spending and find ways to milk the capital rather than build itself up.
(8) The queen of compassion and munificence had been brought to earth; the spell was broken, the magic gone.
(9) It is unlikely to be the munificence of the UK’s benefit system, which is not particularly generous compared with many continental countries, and isn’t open to asylum seekers anyway.
(10) These 3,000 people share no bonuses and are excluded from the magic circle of John Lewis staff who enjoy not just the profits but all manner of sports clubs and leisure activities, thanks to the munificence of John Spedan Lewis, who gave away the company in 1929 in trust to its staff in perpetuity.
(11) Farming is sustained on infertile land (by and large, the uplands) through taxpayers’ munificence .
(12) SC I recognise that art has always been reliant on the munificence of rich, private patrons.
(13) Beneath the surface of our lives churns an ocean of information, from whose depths answers and optimisations ascend like munificent kraken.
(14) He is now remembered almost exclusively for his munificence, rather than the route he took to attaining wealth: reputation management (or laundering) par excellence.
(15) Helwan map The Nasserite state succeeded in delivering material security to much of its population, but it was based on a strictly paternal model of authority: the highest ranks of the military would rule in the interests of everybody, and everybody would be grateful for their munificence.
(16) The job market for young people is increasingly insecure, and low paid: it is sobering to think that the hourly minimum wage for an under-19 apprentice is about to increase from £2.73 to a munificent £3.30.