MAGNANIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnanimity mean? 

• MAGNANIMITY (noun)
  The noun MAGNANIMITY has 1 sense:

1. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

  Familiarity information: MAGNANIMITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNANIMITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

largess; largesse; magnanimity; munificence; openhandedness

Hypernyms ("magnanimity" is a kind of...):

liberality; liberalness (the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament)

Derivation:

magnanimous (generous and understanding and tolerant)

 Context examples 

"Shall I rush into town and demand one?" asked Jo, with the magnanimity of a martyr.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was a magnanimity in her quiet way of doing so, and of dismissing it, which would have exalted her in my respect and affection, if anything could.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In that point, however, I undervalued my own magnanimity, as the event declared; for I went, I saw her, and saw her miserable, and left her miserable—and left her hoping never to see her again.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This was cowardly: I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity at first, as I do now—opened to you plainly my life of agony—described to you my hunger and thirst after a higher and worthier existence—shown to you, not my resolution (that word is weak), but my resistless bent to love faithfully and well, where I am faithfully and well loved in return.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She also discovered what Amy had done about the things in the morning, and considered her a model of magnanimity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)