- the quality or state of being magnanimous
- pl. -·ties a magnanimous act
Origin of magnanimity
Middle English magnanimite
noun
- When you are very generous to everyone around and you give great gifts, this is an example of magnanimity.
- When you rise above your anger and forgive someone who may not deserve to be forgiven, this generosity of spirit is an example of magnanimity.
Magnanimity is defined as the state of being very generous, either literally or in spirit, or the fact of showing great generosity and giving great gifts.
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magnanimity
noun
pl. mag·na·nim·i·ties- The quality of being magnanimous.
- A magnanimous act.
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Noun
(uncountable)
- The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul.
- That quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.
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Sentence Examples
- No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
- It wants only the magnanimity and refinement.
- The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past.
- Muazim came down from Kabul, and with characteristic magnanimity offered to share the empire with his brother.
- Having similarly explained his views and his magnanimity to Tutolmin, he dispatched that old man also to Petersburg to negotiate.
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