(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.
Munificent
Definition:
(a.) Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.
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.