magnanimity
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Are we more united today because of their self-described magnanimity?
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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If those magnanimities are welcomed and made permanent, our soldier-idealists will not have died in vain.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
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
In me divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous—catch them while you can.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
It shows us both the beauty and strength of his personality and his cruelty, evasions, magnanimities, and lusts.
From Mahomet Founder of Islam by Gladys M. Draycott
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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The Declaration of Independence
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