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magnanimous

Definition of magnanimous:

  • part of speech: adjective

    Great of mind; elevated in soul or feeling; generous; courageous; heroic.

  • part of speech: adverb

    Magnanimously.

  • part of speech: adjective

    Great- souled: elevated in soul or sentiment: noble or honorable: brave: unselfish.

  • part of speech: adjective

    High- minded; elevated in soul; disinterested; heroic; exhibiting nobleness of soul.

  • part of speech: adjective

    Great of mind; elevated in soul or sentiment; not selfish; disinterested.

Usage examples :

  • The man, too, was some magnanimous hero, riding a great horse by the shore of the sea. "Night and Day", Virginia Woolf.
  • After making observations relative to the co- operation of foreign powers in this great work, he hoped that the House would not suffer itself to be drawn, either by opposition or by ridicule, to the right or to the left; but that it would advance straight forward to the accomplishment of the most magnanimous act of justice, that was ever achieved by any legislature in the world. "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)", Thomas Clarkson.
  • I put in this little piece of advice to posterity, my boy, because I desire to have posterity magnanimous. "The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3", Robert H. Newell.
  • The sympathy of all men was with him; it was too large an occasion for Coulson to be anything but magnanimous. "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete", Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.

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