GENEROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does generously mean? 

• GENEROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb GENEROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a generous manner

  Familiarity information: GENEROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENEROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a generous manner

Synonyms:

generously; liberally; munificently

Context example:

he gave liberally to several charities

Pertainym:

generous (willing to give and share unstintingly)

 Context examples 

A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

That meant that Maria would not press for payment, and he resolved generously that it would be the only one he would pay; so he began searching through the cast-out heap for hers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you have natal planets at four degrees or 29 degrees, plus or minus five degrees, then this month, you will be generously helped by a loving universe.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I left him, my aunt proceeded, laying her hand as usual on the back of mine, generously.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Little Jane's love would have been my best reward," he answered; "without it, my heart is broken. But Jane will give me her love: yes—nobly, generously."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq., whose rights had been so generously supported by her father, had disappointed her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But Leach took it quite calmly, though blood was spouting upon the deck as generously as water from a fountain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then they told him of the field mice, and how they had generously saved him from death; and the Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)