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highmindedness

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Quality of being high-minded.

uncountable

Examples

“It was a Victorian concept and its life force⟳ perished with the Victorian Age. Victorian in pomp and grandeur, Victorian in the public-school code of its Government, its Philistinism, its middle-class standards of virtue, its creaming of the large Victorian families for its administrators and soldiers, Victorian in the commercialism that mingled with highmindedness in Anglo-Indian relations, Victorian in its Gladstonesque view⟳ of the functions of Government, it was above all Victorian in its faith in the rule⟳ of law and political liberalism...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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