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Meanings of high-minded in English

Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.

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Usage of high-minded in English
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The public expects something more than high-minded declarations of transparency and accountability.
The Irish Times
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Last year, Australia gained its first sex museum, which is similarly high-minded.
The Guardian
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The majority of the board was composed of high-minded and able men.
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
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I never met a more high-minded set of men in any country.
The Problem of China
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When they were just a city, they were supposedly high-minded and self-controlled.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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He should wait upon high-minded Brahmanas adorned with the virtue of forgiveness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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The surest way to have high-minded children is to be high-minded yourself.
Gala-Days
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She is very dear to me still; a beautiful, high-minded, noble woman.
Hyperion
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And so did the rather more high-minded If Beale Street Could Talk.
Radio NZ
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This is all I remember at that time of this high-minded gentleman.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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Certainly such a purpose could not by any possibility animate high-minded men.
Elements of Debating / A Manual for Use in High Schools and Acad...
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Whether Agassiz was as broad-minded as he was high-minded may be argued.
The Last Leaf / Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men ...
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I can well conceive that no honest, high-minded lady would do so.
He Knew He Was Right
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Never has Antarctic research had a warmer, nobler, and more high-minded champion.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
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He told, too, of his gallant and high-minded commander, Colonel Arthur Winchester.
The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign
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George is much too high-minded a man ever to marry for money.
Vanity Fair
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