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magnanimity

[mag-nuh-nim-i-tee] / ˌmæg nəˈnɪm ɪ ti /
NOUN
generosity
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That’s generous and it takes not a small amount of magnanimity to put aside hurt feelings like that.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

But he added: William "will look benevolent. He will look like he is exercising magnanimity."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Thomas Aquinas named it magnanimity, the stretching of the soul toward great things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

In his ambition, Anderson advocates for movement and magnanimity over sitting and spewing, hooking his audience until the journey’s thrilling end, suggesting that the story’s conclusion might just be a brand new start.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025

In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Henceforward, arise, aspire To all the calms and magnanimities, The lofty uses and the noble ends, The sanctified devotion and full work, To which thou art elect for evermore, First woman, wife, and mother!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Not the Peaceable magnanimities, but the Warlike, are the thing appointed Friedrich this winter, and mainly henceforth.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle

"The new order won't be brought about by idle optimism any more than by prayers, or politics, or private magnanimities."

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

He noted all the Apostate's foibles by the side of his virtues and his magnanimities.

From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

Here at last has a Lover of Philosophy got upon the throne, and great philanthropies and magnanimities are to be expected, think rash editors and idle mankind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle




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