Definition of Munificences

1. munificence [n] - See also: munificence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Munificences

municipal solid waste
municipalism
municipalisms
municipalities
municipality
municipalize
municipalized
municipalizes
municipalizing
municipally
municipals
municycling
municyclings
munific
munificence
munificences (current term)
munificent
munificently
munified
munifies
munify
munifying
muniment
muniments
munirite
munis
munite
munited
munites
muniting

Literary usage of Munificences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"... about 860000/. sterling—that is above 50000/. a-year—and their more ostensible munificences to nearly as much. Those of the Prince Royal and the Duchess ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"It must have been a painful surprise to Friedrich to hear from his Voltaire, some few weeks after those munificences, That he, Voltaire, ..."

3. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... probably connected more or less with the law, who met at the Devil Tavern to arrange their munificences. Among John Lamb's verses are rhymed addresses ..."

4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"It must have been a painful surprise to Friedrich, to hear from his Voltaire, some few weeks after those munificences, That he, Voltaire, ..."

5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"It must have been a painful surprise to Friedrich, to hear from his Voltaire, some few weeks after those munificences, That he, Voltaire, ..."

6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"It must have been a painful surprise to Friedrich, to hear from his Voltaire, some few weeks after those munificences, That he, Voltaire, ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1830)
"You desire that your name may not be found in the list of her Majesty's munificences : to feed one's self on such an idea, requires all the vanity of a ..."

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