The new wing of the hospital was dedicated to the munificent family that donated the money to build it. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a munificent bequest. From Dictionary.com.
"munificent" would probably better express my thought. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Monday Fun Quiz!] Reference
So munificent a gift had rarely been equaled anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
"Eat another for France," he said with a munificent smile. From Wordnik.com. [Can Les Bleus Cure France’s Blues?] Reference
The many munificent gifts of library buildings by Mr. Andrew. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
In the furtherance of science and art he was still more munificent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
He was a most munificent prelate, leaving many charitable bequests. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
To his munificent gifts the academy at St. Johnsbury owes its worth. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
Cathedral is a monument of the munificent liberality of the Frenchman. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
He again hails him as "a munificent friend of science and literature.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
The remuneration which Clare received was respectable, if not munificent. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Legally, he could receive, if he chose (but few did), the munificent salary of. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
What does England for any one of its toiling millions who rejects this munificent offer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Mr. John Crosby Brown was the munificent friend who made the house possible, Miss Mae M. From Wordnik.com. [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference
MAECENAS, a trusted adviser of Augustus, and a munificent patron of wits and literary men. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Similar Cretaceous period events, we are now learning, may have yielded munificent reservoirs of oil. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: The New York Times Slays the "Peak Oil" Dinosaur] Reference
Dagobert died in 638, and was buried at the abbey of St. Denys, of which he was the munificent founder. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Favourite Literary and Scientific Pursuits of the Moors under the munificent Rule of Abouhadjad. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
Astonished at this munificent present, I hardly knew how to refuse it without offending the generous giver. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Should these former "friends" of Black the munificent media tycoon treat Black the ex-convict the same way?. From Wordnik.com. [Conrad Black Gets Out Of Jail] Reference
The boy is standing in front of a munificent peach tree in all the splendor and atrophy of his afternoon existing. From Wordnik.com. [Van Gogh's Peach Tree] Reference
The salaries are not by any means munificent, and are earned by a vast amount of privation, exposure and hard work. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
= 60 = -- Mr. Peabody thanked by H. M. the Queen for his munificent gifts to the poor of London Mar. 28, 1866 61. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
At one time, for example, he worked on a ferryboat for the munificent wages of thirty-seven and one half cents a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The munificent gift was accepted by Congress, and appropriations were made for the finest military post in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
Frenchmen are said to have been saved by her munificent charity, on the occasion of the recall of the Duke of Guise, after Constable. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Under Solyman the Magnificent, at once the most warlike monarch and munificent patron of literature and art, the constitution of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The position of school doctor, newly created by the Board of Education at the close of the spring term, carried no munificent salary. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Northwold (1229-1254), the munificent founder of the Presbytery, which were originally placed over his grave in the centre of his own work. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
Hotham was a munificent promoter of the great architectural works carried on under the rule of Prior Crauden, and from the designs of Alan de Walsingham, then Sacrist. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
His munificent donation to the Swansea Hospital, offered conditionally, led to the enlarged foundation of that noble institution, which stands a silent tribute to his memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
Bacchus implored Alexander to intercede for him; the just and munificent monarch, however, refused to write in his favour, but, in order to relieve the man, paid the fine for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
The portion of this screen, which forms the reredos, is the munificent gift of John Dunn Gardner, Esq., of Chatteris, in this county, and designed as a memorial to his first wife. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
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