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
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
The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Words of love that he had spoken ... sins, virtues, magnanimities, meannesses, terrors ... mathematical formulas even, and snatches of songs.
From The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
So has chronology been hacked to make loftier his fame, and the glory of Dom Manuel has been a magnet that has drawn to itself the magnanimities of other days and years.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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
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
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
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The Declaration of Independence
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