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单词 magnanime
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magnanimeadj.

Forms: late Middle English magnamine (transmission error), late Middle English–1600s magnanime, 1500s magnanyme; Scottish pre-1700 magnanime, pre-1700 magnanimie, pre-1700 magnanyme.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French magnanime.
Etymology: < Middle French magnanime noble-spirited (mid 13th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin magnanimus (see magnanimous adj.).
Obsolete.
Great-hearted, high-minded, noble.
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society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [adjective] > high-minded or magnanimous
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large-hearted1607
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c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 217 What exaumple haue we in this case of the manly, magnamine [sic] Scipion.
1523 T. Cromwell Speech to Parl. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 30 This high and Magnanyme enterpryse.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 1 Illustir princes engendrit of magnanime genoligie.
1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit f. 1v Neither to profitte, but to most magnanime and hautie endes.
a1634 A. Gardyne Theatre Scotish Kings (1709) 18 Thou, gratious Prince, with Gravetie, govern'd, Yet magnanime and full of martiall Might.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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