MUNIFICENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does munificence mean? 

• MUNIFICENCE (noun)
  The noun MUNIFICENCE has 1 sense:

1. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

  Familiarity information: MUNIFICENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUNIFICENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

largess; largesse; magnanimity; munificence; openhandedness

Hypernyms ("munificence" is a kind of...):

liberality; liberalness (the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament)

Derivation:

munificent (very generous)

 Context examples 

When he was waiting to be the object of your munificence, so freely bestowed for my sake, and when I was unhappy in the mercenary shape I was made to wear, I thought it would have become him better to have worked his own way on.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)