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Magnanimous
magnanimous
If you are magnanimous, you behave kindly and generously towards someone, especially after defeating them or being treated badly by them. I was prepared to be magnanimous, prepared to feel compassion for him... = generous ? vindictive ADJ • magnanimously ‘You were right, and we were wrong,’ he said magnanimously. ADV: usu ADV with v
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adjective Etymology: Latin magnanimus, from magnus great + animus spirit — more at much, animate Date: 1567 1. showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit the irreproachable lives and ~ sufferings of their followers — Joseph Addison 2. showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind too sincere for dissimulation, too ~ for resentment — Ellen Glasgow • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. nobly generous; not petty in feelings or conduct. Derivatives magnanimity n. magnanimously adv. Etymology: L magnanimus f. magnus great + animus soul ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ adj kind and generous, especially to someone that you have defeated in some way (a magnanimous gesture) - magnanimously adv - magnanimity n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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