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
Lastly, there is the charity itself, which, for all its magnanimity, has glamorous roots.
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 July 2024
This act of magnanimity has unintended repercussions.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
His post-electoral remarks bespoke a magnanimity and forward-looking resolve atypical of politicians.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
There has never been very much magnanimity in the MAGA movement.
—Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 July 2024
This act of magnanimity has unintended repercussions.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
His post-electoral remarks bespoke a magnanimity and forward-looking resolve atypical of politicians.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
There has never been very much magnanimity in the MAGA movement.
—Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnanimity
generosity
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Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
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