magnanimity
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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
Out of magnanimity, I’ll liken this trifle to a Rothko.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Rand held up her hands in a gesture of mock magnanimity.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
The magnanimities of the Anglo-Saxon races are rising to greet one another.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
If those magnanimities are welcomed and made permanent, our soldier-idealists will not have died in vain.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
So all's past, and I am safe: A pox on these fighting masters of mine, to bring me into this danger, with their valours and magnanimities.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
"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
For the first two or three months, Peter was the idol of all the world: such generosities and magnanimities; Such zeal and diligence, one magnanimous improvement following another!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
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The Declaration of Independence
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