generous Copy link Outline I. Of good breedingII. Noble-minded, liberal1. gĕnĕrōsus2. bĕnignus (bountiful, kind)3. lībĕrālis, e (esp. with ref. to giving money) • generous: I. Of good breeding: gĕnĕrōsus: no one of more g. blood than thou, nemo generosior te, Hor. S. 1, 6, 2: Virg.: more fully, generosus sanguine, Ov. Met. 14, 698. Join: generosus ac nobilis, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20. Fig.: g. wine, g. vinum, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 18. II. Noble-minded, liberal: 1. gĕnĕrōsus: v. high-spirited: cf. also Quint. 5, 11, 3. (N.B.--Not to be used in sense of merely kind, liberal.) 2. bĕnignus (bountiful, kind): more g. than one's means allow, benignior quam res patitur, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44: v. kind. 3. lībĕrālis, e (esp. with ref. to giving money): Sall.: Cic.: v. liberal.