munificence
Example Sentences
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It would model virtues such as gregariousness, intellectual curiosity and munificence.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
By then, L.A. was preening itself over movies’ magnificence and munificence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
For all their munificence, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and the great industrial philanthropists of that era were notable – even in their own day – for avoiding the whole question of economic justice.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2020
That the phones are tied into Nessma, whose cameras also faithfully followed Karoui during his charitable sorties, suggests that his acts of munificence were not entirely selfless.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2019
But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he’d been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing munificence
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
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Society and Solitude
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