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单词 magnanimously
释义
magnanimousmag‧nan‧i‧mous /mæɡˈnænɪməs/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINmagnanimous
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin magnanimus, from magnus ‘great’ + animus ‘spirit’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • It was a magnanimous gesture on their part.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A magnanimous gesture from the founders of the Open Software Foundation is needed now to heal any lingering breeches in the industry.
  • At second hand we could have enjoyed the thrill of dangerous living or shown magnanimous sympathy with the victims of oppression.
  • In a magnanimous fit of estate planning, Cook elects to divide the farm between his three daughters.
  • Instead he was extremely magnanimous towards Anna which irritated her further, and made her repulsed by everything to do with him.
  • It was representative of the whole day: accomplished speakers chased answers to magnanimous questions.
  • Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major.
  • Mrs Aquino now has to decide whether she should be magnanimous in victory or punish those behind the mutiny.
  • This might seem excessively saintly and magnanimous.
kind and generous, especially to someone that you have defeated:  a magnanimous gesturemagnanimously adverbmagnanimity /ˌmæɡnəˈnɪməti/ noun [uncountable]
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