Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocraticparagon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).
Origin
From the Ancient Greek μεγαλόψυχος, from μέγας + ψυχή.
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