All 4 Uses of
magnanimous
in
Catch-22
- 'It's all right,' said Dunbar magnanimously.†
Chpt 4 *
- Calrnly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness.†
Chpt 15
- He was a genial, magnanimous lead navigator who could always forgive the other man in the squadron for denouncing him furiously each time he got lost on a combat mission and led them over concentrations of antiaircraft fire.†
Chpt 26
- And it was indeed an objective Peckem who gazed at Colonel Scheisskopf encouragingly and resumed his indoctrination with an attitude of magnanimous forgiveness.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(magnanimous) kind and generous in spirit -- especially toward those defeated in battle