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
But the federal government’s magnanimity did not end there.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
Rand held up her hands in a gesture of mock magnanimity.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Struggle with new magnanimities as she would, jealousy was native to Kitty, and jealousy has sharp eyes.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
For the first two or three months, Peter was the idol of all the world: such generosities and magnanimities; Such zeal and diligence, one magnanimous improvement following another!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
He noted all the Apostate's foibles by the side of his virtues and his magnanimities.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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
Vocabulary lists containing magnanimity
The Declaration of Independence
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Speak Your Mind: Anim
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Brave New World
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