Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Liberality of ideas; freedom from narrowness; magnanimity.
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Examples
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With this concept, we have a precise definition of small-mindedness (and large-mindedness, for that matter).
Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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And it was because we were all coming from different places that there was some complexity there and some large-mindedness that I could never have accomplished on my own.
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Now is the time for Rome to excercise that combination of large-mindedness, wisdom, and patience that is most needed.
Archive 2008-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2008
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But those of us who know them value them for their acute eye, telling perceptions, and large-mindedness.
Keeper of the Jewels Gottlieb, Robert 2008
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Now is the time for Rome to excercise that combination of large-mindedness, wisdom, and patience that is most needed.
The Anglican plan... Joanna Bogle 2008
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(To which Ischomachus) Yes, Socrates, and I would fain narrate some other instances of like large-mindedness on her part: shown in the readiness with which she listened to my words and carried out my wishes.
Oeconomicus 2007
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There was nothing about him wonderful in the way of genius, heroism, large-mindedness, or unselfishness.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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History should not be bare facts; it illustrates and explains politics of our own day; it teaches sympathy and large-mindedness, and the power of admiring virtues which are not of our own type.
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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In this he shows that by reason of its selfishness, its divisions, and want of patriotism and large-mindedness, the Faubourg Saint-Germain had abrogated the proud position it might have held, and was now an obsolete institution, aloof and cornered, wasting its powers on frivolity and the worship of etiquette.
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A shadow fell over Denys's happiness, but she drove it away with her usual good-tempered large-mindedness.
The Girls of St. Olave's Mabel Mackintosh
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