high-minded Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of high-minded In English

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  • Moreover, the circulation of physical and material culture of skulls between the metropolitan and colonial worlds proliferated and involved both high-minded ideologues and popular pamphleteers.

  • Such individuals were also involved in other high-minded societies that required both a certain class background and also high educational qualification for membership.

  • This motive competes with other high-minded concerns, so judges sometimes acquiesce to the moral problem presented by a borderline case.

  • Yet naive high-minded criticism of this sort misses the point.

  • Simultaneously, composers found that they were being held to task by high-minded critics for producing low (that is, entertaining) music.

  • But take a more careful look at the high-minded talk about virtue.

  • His ingestion of the herb that precipitated the outburst was completely unobjectionable given the safety precautions he was taking and given his high-minded reasons for ingesting the herb.

  • The goods of the poor were secured and inventoried, and master and mistress installed, and high-minded rules provided supervision of inmates and gentle treatment of the elderly.

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Translations of high-minded In Other Languages

  • 中文繁体

    情操高尚的…

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  • 中文简体

    情操高尚的…

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  • Español

    noble, altruista, magnánimo…

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  • Français

    à l’âme noble…

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  • Čeština

    velkomyslný…

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  • Dansk

    nobel…

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  • Indonesia

    watak mulia…

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  • ภาษาไทย

    จิตใจสูง…

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