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Magnanimity

　　Greatness of soul; a disposition of mind exerted in contemning dangers and difficulties, in scorning temptations, and despising earthly pomp and splendour. Cu de offic. lec. 1: ch. 20; Grove's Moral Phil. p. 268, vol. 2:

　　 See articles COURAGE, FORTITUDE, in this work; Steel's Christian Hero; Watts on Self- Murder.