munificentlyadv.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H2^v Some large summes of monie..which I knew not how better to imploy..than by spending it munificently vnder your name.

1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. vi. ii. 48 That God doth graciously accept, and munificently recompence our good workes.

1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. i. 60 Soto mittigates his ire, they travell to Mount Mongibell, where he is munificently treated by Lamia the Witch.

1770 Bible (Worsley) 2 Cor. viii. 2 In a great trial of affliction, their abundant chearfulness and their deep poverty, hath munificently shewn the riches of their bounty.

1795 M. V. Faugeres Belisarius v. 49 Thy bountiful Creator, whose wide hand Diffuses most munificently Good To Earth's unnumbered creatures.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 19 Jan. 3/1 The endowments for their support and maintenance have been extensively large, and the protecting power of the several state legislatures, has been munificently apportioned to a various number of these institutions.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 317 Henry had munificently rewarded his services to the crown.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 291/2 Æthelstan..was buried at Malmesbury, an abbey which he had munificently endowed during his lifetime.

1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride v. 28 She shops munificently, and with gusto, but often on the run.