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Animus \An"i*mus\, n.; pl. Animi . [L., mind.] Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.
Usage examples of animi.
His disinterested magnanimity, on each separate occasion, declined the sceptre, and gave the noble example of obedience to the appointed caliph.
These timid maxims of policy were disdained by the magnanimity or enthusiasm of the Arabian caliphs.
The Apulian praises indeed his validas vires, probitas animi, and vivida virtus.
Instead of being confined within the walls of fortified cities, which the Romans considered as the refuge of weakness or pusillanimity, the legions were encamped on the banks of the great rivers, and along the frontiers of the barbarians.
The wisest senators applauded his magnanimity: but they diverted him from the execution of a design which would have dissolved the strength and resources of the republic.
If it were possible to rely on the partial testimony of an injudicious writer, we might ascribe the abdication of Diocletian to the menaces of Galerius, and relate the particulars of a private conversation between the two princes, in which the former discovered as much pusillanimity as the latter displayed ingratitude and arrogance.
The circus resounded with their indignant clamors, and they tumultuously besieged the gates of the palace, reproaching the pusillanimity of their indolent sovereign, and celebrating the heroic spirit of Constantine.
Even those who censured the propriety of his measures were compelled to acknowledge, that he possessed magnanimity to conceive, and patience to execute, the most arduous designs, without being checked either by the prejudices of education, or by the clamors of the multitude.
The younger Victor paints the character of Magnentius in a singular light: "Sermonis acer, animi tumidi, et immodice timidus.
The magnanimity of Julian was applauded and betrayed, by the arts of a noble Persian, who, in the cause of his country, had generously submitted to act a part full of danger, of falsehood, and of shame.
Exigui animi vices munerum partiuntur, liberalitas desideriis nihil reliquit.
The inaction of the negroes does not seem to be the effect either of their virtue or of their pusillanimity.
But the haughty monarch was incapable of the magnanimity which dares to acknowledge a fault.
The fall of the second, and the rise of the third, appears so enormous, that several critics, notwithstanding the unanimity of the Mss.
On this occasion, Constantius behaved with the magnanimity of a genuine Roman.