magnanimous
adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400GRECAT
DEFINITION
noble and generous in spirit
WEBSTER'S 1913
Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.
ETYMOLOGY
Lat magnanīmus, great of mind
IN LITERATURE
“Wah! the lion might have crushed him, but that he's magnanimous.”
— George Meredith, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
IN USE
“We should be magnanimous and accept it as a magnanimous act", although Tutu was privately frustrated that de Klerk's apology had been qualified and had not gone so far as to call apartheid an intrinsically evil policy.”
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