highmindedness
See also: high-mindedness
English
Noun
highmindedness (uncountable)
- Quality of being high-minded.
- 1948, Henry Vincent Hodson, Twentieth-century Empire, page 102:
- 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...
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