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
Instead, he responded with joking faux magnanimity: “I try not to blame women on their own,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
“Shall I rush into town and demand one?” asked Jo, with the magnanimity of a martyr.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Struggle with new magnanimities as she would, jealousy was native to Kitty, and jealousy has sharp eyes.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"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
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
With the Hessians there was some difficulty; hesitation on Landgraf Wilhelm's part; who pities the poor Kaiser, and would fain see him back at Frankfurt, and awaken the Britannic magnanimities for him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
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
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