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magnanimous

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11 lettersPronunciation /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aagimmnnosuStarts with MEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. generous and understanding and tolerant

Word origin

From Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”). Displaced native Old English miċelmōd (literally “big-minded”).

Used in a sentence

  • She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
  • doolittle [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen.
  • I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.

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