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magnanimous | Word of the Day
September 05, 2019
magnanimous
[mag-
nan
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uh
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uh
s]
adjective
1.
generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness:
to be magnanimous toward one's enemies.
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... if he would ... discharge his heart of its hoarded bitterness—forgive the world, for having turned his head; and for not keeping it turned, by main force; become a little more
magnanimous
; and, a little less unhappy and suspicious ... I do almost believe that he might do something decent, to be remembered by.
-- John Neal,
Randolph
, 1823
ORIGIN
Magnanimous
comes from the Latin adjective
magnanimus
"noble in spirit, brave, generous."
Magnanimus
is a loan translation of the Greek adjectives
megáthymos
,
megalóthymos
"great hearted," and
megalópsychos
"generous, high-souled."
Magnanimus
was used especially in translations of the Aristotelian term
megalópsychos
.
Magnanimous
entered English in the 16th century.
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