magnanimity

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Even Napoleon's father-in-law, the Emperor of Austria, who had given his daughter in marriage to the arbiter of Europe, did not deign to reply, though only a brief time before he had received many tokens of magnanimity from the French Emperor.

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  1. noun The quality of being magnanimous.
  2. noun A magnanimous act.

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  • Should we not pause, they may be saying, and I ought to say, shouldn ` t we not pause, A, and talk about, one, the magnanimity -- the largeness of the problems, and secondly, he is not Superman? —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • This will require magnanimity, a willingness to overcome real and imagined historical resentments, and pragmatism about development, that the states of the region cannot seem to commit themselves to. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • O Lord, grant me tolerance, magnanimity, and gentleness; —  Latest Articles
  • I cannot quit this poor fellow's story without adding that he is at this time master of a large West Indiaman belonging to the Thames His mind was fraught with independence, magnanimity, and every manly virtue. —  Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists
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  1. from Middle English magnanimite = French magnanimite = Spanish magnanimidad = Portuguese magnanimidade = Italian magnanimità, from Latin magnanimita(t-)s, greatness of soul, from magnanimus, great-souled: see magnanimous.
 

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