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biocon commented on the word parvanimous
Parvanimous means "small-minded" (Oxford English Dictionary).
July 10, 2011
kalayzich commented on the word parvanimous
great word, parvanimous
1819 Examiner 14 Nov. 731/2 We mean..any parvanimous great man, who would fain revenge his slavery at home by lording it out of doors.
1855 L. Hunt Let. 26 July (1862) II. 204 What I partly did myself, half for the reasons above mentioned, and half perhaps out of a sort of parvanimous wish not to assist the critics.
1945 Amer. Hist. Rev. 50 286 The conduct of most of the Republicans respecting the Treaty been discouragingly parvanimous.
October 5, 2016