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  • To be fair, Jesse has been pretty magnanimus about shunning the massive "draft Jesse '08" movement that's sweeping the country.

    Obama Supporter Jesse Jackson: Only Edwards Is Paying Attention To Blacks 2009

  • The final vowel of the stem of the first member of the compound often appears as ĭ where we should expect ŏ or ă; sometimes it is dropped altogether, and in case of consonant stems ĭ is often inserted; as, -- signifer, _standard-bearer_; tubicen, _trumpeter_; magnanimus, _high-minded_; mātricīda, _matricide_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • His declinature was taken so hotly by the King and Arran that all who were present felt he was as good as a dead man; but 'Mr. Andro, never jarging [9] nor daschit [10] a whit, with magnanimus courage, mightie force of sprit and fouthe [11] of evidence of reason and langage, plainly tauld the King and

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • These two sentences are omitted by the translator; and the long further account which Benvenuto gives of the election and rule of Boniface is throughout modified by him in favor of this "_magnanimus peccator_."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • -- "Auctor ssepissime dicit de ipso Bonifacio magna mala, qui de rei veritate fuit magnanimus peccator": "Our author very often speaks exceedingly ill of Boniface, who was in very truth a grand sinner."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • To a contemporary, Boniface was "magnanimus peccator," the great-hearted sinner; while a modern historian describes him as

    The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907

  • Mr. Treacher is hoping that being magnanimus will get him the apology he so richly deserves.

    Hot Air » Top Picks Allahpundit 2010

  • Mr. Treacher is hoping that being magnanimus will get him the apology he so richly deserves.

    Hot Air » Top Picks Allahpundit 2010

  • Homo Hominum a malitia & vindicta innocentissimus: magnanimus, apertus,

    Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • “Youth I want to caution you about one thing, don’t say harsh things about Mr. Harte,” she wrote, “don’t talk against Mr. Harte to people, it is so much better that you be reticent about him…We are so desperately happy…and he is so miserable, we can easily afford to be magnanimus toward him…be careful my darling…”32 But Mark Twain did not know the meaning of magnanimus.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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