as in generosity
the quality of displaying kind or generous treatment toward others especially when they are undeserving of it
I can't believe she had the magnanimity to forgive that drunk driver who wrecked her car.
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Recent Examples of magnanimity
That level of humility and magnanimity would go a long way these days.
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Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024
Lastly, there is the charity itself, which, for all its magnanimity, has glamorous roots.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 July 2024
This act of magnanimity has unintended repercussions.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
His magnanimity may have been intended to compensate for his earlier razing of Rotterdam and to preclude his prosecution for ordering the extermination of thousands of Russian Jews.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
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Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024
Lastly, there is the charity itself, which, for all its magnanimity, has glamorous roots.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 July 2024
This act of magnanimity has unintended repercussions.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
His magnanimity may have been intended to compensate for his earlier razing of Rotterdam and to preclude his prosecution for ordering the extermination of thousands of Russian Jews.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
See All Example Sentences for magnanimity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnanimity
generosity
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Through these tactics, Iftiu is trying to pay forward the generosity he's received within the system.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Alongside framing a poetics of wonder and wander, the writings across this trinity of works give us glimpses into how the world taught Oliver to love, a generosity revealed in what has sometimes been seen as lack.—
Natalie Diaz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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