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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
magnanimous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was a magnanimous gesture on their part.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A magnanimous gesture from the founders of the Open Software Foundation is needed now to heal any lingering breeches in the industry.
▪ At second hand we could have enjoyed the thrill of dangerous living or shown magnanimous sympathy with the victims of oppression.
▪ In a magnanimous fit of estate planning, Cook elects to divide the farm between his three daughters.
▪ Instead he was extremely magnanimous towards Anna which irritated her further, and made her repulsed by everything to do with him.
▪ It was representative of the whole day: accomplished speakers chased answers to magnanimous questions.
▪ Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major.
▪ Mrs Aquino now has to decide whether she should be magnanimous in victory or punish those behind the mutiny.
▪ This might seem excessively saintly and magnanimous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnanimous

Magnanimous \Mag*nan"i*mous\, a.[L. magnanimus; magnus great + animus mind. See Magnate, and Animus.]

  1. Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

    Be magnanimous in the enterprise.
    --Shak.

    To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to lay down Far more magnanimous than to assume.
    --Milton.

  2. Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

    Both strived for death; magnanimous debate.
    --Stirling.

    There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
    --Washington.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
magnanimous

1580s, a back-formation from magnanimity + -ous, or else from Latin magnanimus "highminded," literally "great-souled" (see magnanimity). Related: Magnanimously.

Wiktionary
magnanimous

a. Noble and generous in spirit.

WordNet
magnanimous
  1. adj. noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror" [syn: greathearted]

  2. generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: big, large]

Wikipedia
Magnanimous
  • An adjective referring to magnanimity
    • hence an epithet, used for various rulers
  • The music label Magnanimous Records

Usage examples of "magnanimous".

Vorn had been a pest sometimes, but now Broud could afford to be magnanimous.

To wit, to sign one of your noble and predacious tomes for our parish library, hoping that is not too magnanimous an imposture for such a gran signore --?

The defeat at Majuba Hill was followed by the complete surrender of the Gladstonian Government, an act which was either the most pusillanimous or the most magnanimous in recent history.

I am a lowly servingman from Austra, once bound to the service of Margrave Judith but later coming into the service of her magnanimous son, Presbyter Hugh.

She drove Clairon from Ansbach, and the great tragedienne returned to Paris, where she remained true to her false friend, and from time to time wrote him letters full of magnanimous counsel and generous tenderness.

Sure As light enkindles light when heavenly earthly mates, The flame of pure immits the flame of pure, Magnanimous Magnanimous creates.

There have remained some few great Nimrods who have chosen to be magnanimous and to pay for everything, despising the contributions of their followers.

It was, undoubtedly, in the hope of regaining your former position that you entered into a conspiracy against a magnanimous prince with these vile wretches!

His Troilus is a noble, sensitive, generous, puresouled, manly, magnanimous hero, who is only confirmed and stimulated in all virtue by his love, who lives for his lady, and dies for her falsehood, in a lofty and chivalrous fashion.

The shame of my unworthiness could, perhaps, have been wiped out with the help of Emmy's magnanimous forgiveness.

It is certain that, while we aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage, and en deavour to confine our pleasures altogether within our own minds, we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus, and other Stoics, only a more refined system of selfishness, and reason ourselves out of all virtue as well as social enjoyment.

Those jealousies, and littlenesses, and envyings, which prey upon the spirits of many men, as the vulture on the heart that chained Prometheus--and whose fierce besetment they who WILL be magnanimous, have to fight off, as one drives away the eagles from their prey, with voice and gestures--seem never to assail him.

He was a genial, magnanimous lead navigator who could always forgive the other man in the squadron for denouncing him furiously each time he got lost on a combat mission and led them over concentrations of antiaircraft fire.

And, therefore, if suicide is to be esteemed a magnanimous act, none can take higher rank for magnanimity than that Cleombrotus, who (as the story goes), when he had read Plato’.

Sometimes, if Bulkezu was in a magnanimous mood, Boso got to pick a fresh woman from among the newly-captured prisoners rather than accept the leavings after the Quman had done with them.