parvanimity

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  1. The state of having a little or ignoble mind; littleness of mind; meanness: the opposite of magnanimity. When once it is noted that the apprehension of being derided for retracting is the sole obstacle that stands between your reason and so important a change as your conversion, they will justly esteem your parvanimity so great that you deserve derision for so poorly fearing it. Boyle, Works, V. 215.
  2. A person with a little or ignoble mind. I trust that very few persons indeed, not of the class of hopeless parvanimities of the true insular stamp, would be otherwise than heartily ashamed of so feeling. F.Hall, Modern English, p. 33.

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  • a sober estimate, hanging might be too heavy a price for the refutation of a single error; yet still, at times, when my moral sense is roused and provoked by the obstinate blindness of Professor Wilson to the meanness and _parvanimity_ [45] of Bonaparte (a blindness which in him, as in all other worshippers of false idols, is connected at the moment with intense hatred for those who refuse to partake in it), —  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
 

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