large-minded
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- large-mindedly adverb
- large-mindedness noun
Etymology
Origin of large-minded
First recorded in 1715–25
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare is thus both nativist and international, chauvinistic and large-minded, malleable to incompatible causes and ideologies.
From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2019
More cautious historians�the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists�will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments.
From Time Magazine Archive
What set the Murphys apart was a special, large-minded devotion to each other and to their friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
But unlike many of his fellow philosophes, Voltaire was large-minded enough to realize what the end of faith meant, and wise enough to have no undue optimism about the nature of man without God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The large-minded statesmanship with which Burke discusses conciliation with the colonies is of like quality with this magnanimous spirit of Alexander.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
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