Again: Tellson’s was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their thanks to their generous benefactor, but they had seen him, upon quitting the hut, merely give some orders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d’Aix.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
King John of England, for example, appears to have been a most munificent benefactor to his towns.790 Philip the First of France lost all authority over his barons.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations