magnanimous

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  1. adjective Courageously noble in mind and heart.
  2. adjective Generous in forgiving; eschewing resentment or revenge; unselfish.

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  • He knew that he was dealing with a man at once shrewd and magnanimous, and he gave him credit for understanding how to estimate his professional interest apart from his sense of private injury. —  A Publisher and His Friends
  • This project of the Count de Gauvon was judicious, magnanimous, and truly worthy of a powerful nobleman, equally provident and generous; but besides my not seeing, at that time, its full extent, it was far too rational for my brain, and required too much confinement. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • He had tact enough to perceive at first that the assumption of the pathetic and the magnanimous, and general confessions of faults, accompanied with admissions of his wife's goodness, would be the best policy in his case. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • Which was reckoned magnanimous, at least public-spirited, in Friedrich; considering what Saxony's behavior to him had already been. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • "Madame had tried the pure sciences and philosophies, in Books: but how much more charming, when they come to you as a Human Philosopher; handsome, magnanimous, and the wittiest man in the world! —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
 

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  1. From Latin magnanimus : magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots + animus, soul, mind; see anə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French magnanime = Spanish magnánimo = Portuguese Italian magnanimo, from Latin magnanimus, great-souled, having a great or lofty soul, from magnus, great (see main), + animus, soul, mind: see animus. Cf. pusillanimous.
 

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/mægˈnænɪməs/
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