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Definition of High-mindedness
1. Noun. Elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued.
Generic synonyms: Grandeur, Magnanimousness, Nobility, Nobleness
Derivative terms: High-minded, Idealist, Idealistic, Noble-minded
Definition of High-mindedness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being high-minded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-mindedness
Literary usage of High-mindedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"He who deserves little and claims little is tem- 5 perate [or modest], but not
high-minded: for high- mindedness [or greatness of soul] implies greatness, ..."
2. Philosophy and Religion: A Series of Addresses, Essays and Sermons Designed by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1888)
"1886: high-mindedness. BRETHREN OP THE GRADUATING CLASS :—You have now ...
There is a high-mindedness that is good ; there is a high-mindedness that is evil ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"True high- mindedness, therefore, cannot but imply virtue; or, rather, the
criterion of ... High- mindedness, then, would seem to be the crown, as it were, ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"... are so strong that the new forms of culture are likely to prove themselves
quite as productive of morality, high- mindedness and idealism as the old. ..."
5. An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We by Edward Augustus Holyoke (1830)
"... high-mindedness, AMBITION, HAUGHTINESS, PRIDE. Pride and Haughtiness are
peculiarly odious to the Deity, and offensive to Man: they show such an ..."
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