magnanime Save DMLBS magnanime [LL] 1 with great spirit, bravely, courageously. nam humiliantibus sibi insurgant: sed cum ~e eis resistitur, tabescunt Bacon Maj. II 285. 2 with great spirit, conceitedly, haughtily. omnes magnanime spernit virtutis amicos Bonif. Aen. 221.