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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

SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
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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