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Example sentences for "munificently"

Lexicographically close words:
municipals; municipia; municipium; munificence; munificent; muniment; muniments; munire; munita; munition
  1. The Martelli were associated with many of the pious works of the Medici: for example, they assisted munificently in the building and endowment of the great church of San Lorenzo.

  2. With energy which seemed never to tire, she urged forward her plans for national improvements, establishing schools all over the empire, which were munificently supported at the imperial expense.

  3. Grecian artists were munificently patronized, and paintings and mosaics of exquisite workmanship added attraction to churches reared in the highest style of existing art.

  4. He invited illustrious foreigners to send him their works, and munificently recompensed them.

  5. These princely funds, when intrusted to pious prelates, were munificently dispensed in useful public works, and especially in the foundation of eleemosynary institutions, with which every great city in Castile was liberally supplied.

  6. Other provinces contributed largely, yet not so munificently as Massachusetts.

  7. Had the court reserved to itself and munificently exercised the privilege of rewarding these services, it might still have retained power and wealth.

  8. The same remark applies to the Premier, Lord Liverpool, who provided so munificently for the family of Reynolds the informer.

  9. Among them was a letter from Lawless urging him to contribute to the defence of unfortunate O'Coigly, and mentioning that 'Little Henry' had munificently subscribed.

  10. But in a few years the buildings were extended and the collection augmented munificently by Thomas Rotherham or Scot, then Chancellor of the University and Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards Archbishop of York.

  11. The Emperor laughed a great deal over this piece of nonsense, and munificently paid the French actor some arrears in salary which the poor man had up till then not dared to claim.

  12. A great admirer of French literature, he munificently subsidised the actors to whom he owed the pleasure of seeing our dramatic masterpieces performed.

  13. Escurial, which, failing to give satisfaction to his royal patron, were subsequently effaced, and their place supplied by Pellegrino Tibaldi; the king nevertheless munificently rewarded him.

  14. The poet who, at an early age, had been raised to affluence by the emulous liberality of Whigs and Tories, could not with propriety inscribe to a chief of either party a work which had been munificently patronized by both.

  15. George the First had enriched her library; George the Second had contributed munificently to her Senate House.

  16. That's not very munificently paid either, is it?

  17. He even yawned, yawned openly and audibly, as we drew up at the carriage entrance of that munificently lighted hostelry.

  18. For all its walls of stone and brick, for all the steel grills that covered its windows and the heavy scroll work that protected its glass door, it remained a place munificently ripe for plunder.

  19. Little did the nation at large imagine that the family of the sovereign (to whose individual income they had so promptly and munificently contributed) were the causes of his acute anxieties!

  20. The poet who, at an early age, had been raised to affluence by the emulous liberality of Whigs and Tories, could not with propriety inscribe to a chief of either party a work which had been munificently patronised by both.

  21. I applaud those benevolent societies which munificently encouraged that work.

  22. These works gave the greatest satisfaction to the King, who munificently rewarded the artist, and treated him with great kindness and extraordinary familiarity.

  23. Charles, who appreciated, and knew how to assist genius without wounding its delicacy, employed Titian to paint his portrait, for which he munificently rewarded him.

  24. On December 19th it was reported to the Town Council that the Marchioness of Lothian had munificently given to the city a small-pox hospital.

  25. The sculpture of the human figure became a noble object of ambition, and was most munificently rewarded.

  26. But we have every reason to believe that both Greeks and Romans were most severely trained in the art of public speaking, and that forensic eloquence was highly prized and munificently rewarded.

  27. He visited Catherine once in her capital, and was there munificently entertained by her.

  28. The Duchess of Urbino (Lucretia d'Este,) was munificently kind to him.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "munificently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.