MAGNANIMOUS in a Sentence

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But here is a good creature, who does not repulse me, he thought, and his heart again knew the sweetness of magnanimous emotions.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAGNANIMOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
magnanimous
 a.  generous; high-minded or great-souled; chivalrous
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  'In that case I will go to her,' cried Arkady, with a fresh rush of magnanimous feeling, and he jumped up from his seat.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  But here is a good creature, who does not repulse me, he thought, and his heart again knew the sweetness of magnanimous emotions.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  You must be magnanimous and pardon me if I've bored you.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  But even then he remained as cold as ice; he realised that Pavel Petrovitch wanted to play the magnanimous.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and magnanimous.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
6  For Moscow society Pierre was the nicest, kindest, most intellectual, merriest, and most magnanimous of cranks, a heedless, genial nobleman of the old Russian type.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
7  I must be magnanimous and truly great.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
8  She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
10  So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
11  If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  It was in this hall that Harold returned the magnanimous answer to the ambassador of his rebel brother.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Gurth, gallantly apparelled, attended as esquire upon his young master whom he had served so faithfully, and the magnanimous Wamba, decorated with a new cap and a most gorgeous set of silver bells.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  Well," said Morcerf, "I may as well be magnanimous, and tear myself away to forward your wishes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
15  "The reward of merit for a magnanimous March," as Laurie announced with a flourish.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
Example Sentence:
1  The last area where Obama should be magnanimous is on Defense policy.
2  The only things more impressive than her heroics are her magnanimous spirit and ability to bring people together.
3  He is a leader who is magnanimous in victory.
4  Arsenal's manager was magnanimous in victory, and praised the losing team.
5  Having stoked conflict, raised tension to breaking point and threatened invasion, he made a magnanimous concession.