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magnanimous

adj
/mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/UK

Etymology

From Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”). Displaced native Old English miċelmōd (literally “big-minded”).

  1. derived from magnanimus

Definitions

  1. Noble and generous in spirit.

    • She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
    • doolittle [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at magnanimous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at magnanimous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at magnanimous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA