Magnanimity Definition

măgnə-nĭmĭ-tē
noun
The quality or state of being magnanimous.
Webster's New World
A magnanimous act.
Webster's New World

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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Magnanimity 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.

  • Showing considerable magnanimity, he promised to grant to each of them half the revenues of the lands in which they were his destined heirs, and a certain number of castles to hold as their own.

  • His marriage was one of those of which " magnanimity owes no account to prudence," and it did not turn out prosperously.

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