highmindedly

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Adverb

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highmindedly (comparative more highmindedly, superlative most highmindedly)

  1. Alternative form of high-mindedly
    • 2010, Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions, →ISBN, pages 30–31:
      We prefer to talk highmindedly of our reluctantly advocating punishment of criminals perhaps because social utility or justice demands it and tend to think that it is only primitives who would actually hate criminals and want them to suffer to appease an anger or outrage that is felt toward them.