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large-mindedness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Liberality of ideas; freedom from narrowness; magnanimity.

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Examples

  • With this concept, we have a precise definition of small-mindedness (and large-mindedness, for that matter).

    Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • And it was because we were all coming from different places that there was some complexity there and some large-mindedness that I could never have accomplished on my own.

    Home Recordings From Weezer Frontman 2009

  • Now is the time for Rome to excercise that combination of large-mindedness, wisdom, and patience that is most needed.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • But those of us who know them value them for their acute eye, telling perceptions, and large-mindedness.

    Keeper of the Jewels Gottlieb, Robert 2008

  • Now is the time for Rome to excercise that combination of large-mindedness, wisdom, and patience that is most needed.

    The Anglican plan... Joanna Bogle 2008

  • (To which Ischomachus) Yes, Socrates, and I would fain narrate some other instances of like large-mindedness on her part: shown in the readiness with which she listened to my words and carried out my wishes.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • There was nothing about him wonderful in the way of genius, heroism, large-mindedness, or unselfishness.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • History should not be bare facts; it illustrates and explains politics of our own day; it teaches sympathy and large-mindedness, and the power of admiring virtues which are not of our own type.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • In this he shows that by reason of its selfishness, its divisions, and want of patriotism and large-mindedness, the Faubourg Saint-Germain had abrogated the proud position it might have held, and was now an obsolete institution, aloof and cornered, wasting its powers on frivolity and the worship of etiquette.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • A shadow fell over Denys's happiness, but she drove it away with her usual good-tempered large-mindedness.

    The Girls of St. Olave's Mabel Mackintosh

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