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
In me divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous—catch them while you can.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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
"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
He noted all the Apostate's foibles by the side of his virtues and his magnanimities.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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
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The Declaration of Independence
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