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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Munificent \Mu*nif"i*cent\, a. [L. munificus munus service,
gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make Cf {Immunity}, {-fy}.]
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as a munificent
benefactor. -- {Mu*nif"i*cent*ly}, adv
Syn: Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
munificent
adj : very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the
critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his
mother a quarter and he thought them munificent";
"prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his
unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to
Britain" [syn: {lavish}, {overgenerous}, {prodigal}, {too-generous},
{unsparing}, {unstinted}, {unstinting}]
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