Parvanimity

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parvanimity \Par`va*nim"i*ty\, n. [L. parvus little + animus
     mind.]
     The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind;
     pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to {magnanimity}. --De
     Quincey.
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