How To Use Munificent In A Sentence
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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.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829
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It's like extolling the noble sacrifice of Nicaragua's Samoza when he and 3,000 of his friends took in 90% of the country's wealth and earnings and munificently "shouldered" 60% of the taxes that the 4 million Nicaraguans had to caught up.
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From this, you immediately see where the Beeb is coming from: the munificent, caring EU has delivered unto us with wonderful law which protects us – and the sacred environment – from the depredations of irresponsible and polluting car owners.
Love is blind
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We know that local councils are strapped for cash but such a munificent gesture from the councillors also seems somewhat improbable!
3 posts from May 2009
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his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
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Who does not desire to be hospitable to his friends, generous to the poor, liberal to all, munificent to his children, and to be himself free from the carking fear which poverty creates?
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He enjoys being munificent on a princely scale.
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A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
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And who can overlook the munificent healthcare plans union members get?
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Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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Sandel was Youth, and he threw his strength away with the munificent abandon of Youth.
A PIECE OF STEAK
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Of Germanus 'works "certain homilies on Marian themes have survived, of which some have had a profound influence on the piety of entire generations of faithful, both in the East and the West", including one which Pope Pius XII "set like a pearl in the 1950 Apostolic Constitution' Munificentissimus Deus '", dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
Benedict XVI on St. Germanus of Constantinople, defender of holy images
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Henry Clay Frick left his house and collection to New York in 1919 and Isabella Stewart Gardner was equally munificent to Boston in 1924.
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A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
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His legal skill was quoted as authority, his charities were munificent, his name unblemished by a single mean deed.
Scottish sketches
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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.
The Butler Bandwagon Rides Again
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However, the Confederate navy had never been given munificent funds to work with.
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Both are munificent presents from the Canadian Professor, wafted to us by the Gotham Book Mart.
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Considered good credit score has been munificently for as linearly as i can perceptivity, and uncarpeted to korea one of the goddamned oenothera in daubentoniidae, unco the imputable has been rallentando bonelike in spirited gadfly.
Rational Review
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He was for several years Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, to which, as well as to Glasgow University, he was a munificent benefactor.
The Third Marquess of Bute: Catholic Convert and Patron
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Born into a Florida orange-growing dynasty, he was educated at private secondary school, was a Harvard drop-out, and spent his days buoyed by a munificent trust fund.
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Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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He found himself having to conduct a war on two fronts - with the Americans to be more generous, and with London to accept that Washington would not be as munificent as they desired.
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She exhorts me to accept that new position, although that position reward is not munificent.
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a munificent gift
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People are happy just to come and get munted on my munificent hospitality.
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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].
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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Gillian Keith fizzed skittishly and effortlessly as Zerbinetta, an acidulous sop to Orla Boylan's munificent, creamy but variably toned Ariadne.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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It's important that we not think we'd be munificent benefactors, bringing a sack full of goodies to share.
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But given his munificent nature, he would never agree to step off this bridge before imparting to me every single thing he knows about its history.
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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.
Why I Fired My Broker
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.."munificent" would probably better express my thought...
BSNYC Monday Fun Quiz!
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After more than a decade of munificent salary-and-stock packages, many of America's corporate chieftains are departing with big retirement packages, provoking anger among some worker and shareholder activists.
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This munificent seven have a total of €7,500 to dole out to clubs before May.
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A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
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The journal is looking for a new editor, and the lucky applicant will be given complete freedom and the munificent salary of £70 000 to achieve just one goal: to raise the journal's impact factor.
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And I was, at what seemed to me to be the munificent salary of $20,000 a year, plus expenses.
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The U.S. auctioned $28 billion worth of four-week bills on Wednesday paying a munificent yield of 0%.
Overheard
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Third, tight control of cash flow and financial accountability were imposed on an organization that had been accustomed to a munificent past with more relaxed resource-allocation procedures.
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But whereas the first act of her performance is disciplined, down-to-earth and munificent with wit, the second and third acts are inscrutable, new-agey and dull.
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Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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Because she gives quantities of money to unglamorous charities, and is especially munificent towards orphans?
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The painters, hearing these words, applied themselves with all diligence to do what he required of them and wrought it out in masterly style; and when they had made an end of the work, they showed it to the Wazir who, seeing his so-called dream set forth as it was280 was pleased and thanked them and rewarded them munificently.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Handing me things and giving me advice left and right, the backstage women were quickly turning from munificent to officious.
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A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
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a munificent gift
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This Chlotar, who was strong-minded and well-read, was also a God-fearing man, for he was a munificent patron of churches and priests, an almsgiver to the poor, kindly disposed to all and full of piety.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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In addition, it offers munificent subsidies to the evacuees to pay for affordable second-hand living quarters.
