magnanimity

Example Sentences

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But the federal government’s magnanimity did not end there.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

He dealt with the disappointment with magnanimity and played on.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

In times of true crisis, magnanimity is the privilege of those happy collaborators who are secure in the belief that they will be OK no matter what.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024

Yagman, whose past victories included establishing that lawyers cannot be sanctioned for making disparaging comments about their judges, showed uncharacteristic magnanimity in defeat.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Touched, Bernard felt himself at the same time humiliated by this magnanimity—a magnanimity the more extraordinary and therefore the more humiliating in that it owed nothing to soma and everything to Helmholtz’s character.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley