Read full poem →the circumstances of our emigratiouand settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kin-
Dictionary Entry
The quality of being generously kind, forgiving, or noble, especially towards a rival or someone less powerful.
In a Sentence
“The king showed great magnanimity by pardoning the rebels after their failed uprising, choosing peace over revenge.”
Origin
From Latin magnanimitas, from magnus "great" + animus "soul, mind."
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “magnanimity”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →mercy of the American gunners, grandly illustrates the
unparalleled magnanimity of the American people. The
surrender compromised not only the city of Santiago,
Read full poem →Prince Arthur, the personification of Magnificence, by which Spenser means
Magnanimity (Aristotle's [Greek: megalopsychia]), is the ideal of a perfect
character, in which all the private virtues are united. It is a poem of
Read full poem →O, happy! happy! enviable man!
O glorious magnanimity of soul!
Read full poem →The son of Scyld, on Scandinavian soil.
So should magnanimity be the young man’s care, 20
Rich gifts and royal in his father’s household,
Read full poem →The love of arms, I should say, not exile,
Mind’s magnanimity brought you to Hrothgar?’
Duly he answered him then dauntless,
Read full poem →Unveils to dread a malignity unfathomable,
Murderousness, humiliation. I might in magnanimity
Give Hrothgar advising for the remedy of that,
Read full poem →some reason for making the same apology in
every other. Magnanimity is above circum-
stance; and any virtue which depends oh