The genealogy of the adjective impregnable includes the Middle French word prenable, meaning vulnerable, easily conquered, which itself came from the verb prendre, which meant to take. The addition of the negative prefix im-flipped the meaning. Impregnable can be used to describe anything that cannot be entered or successfully attacked. Seventeenth-century theater critic Jeremy Collier once said, True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Learner's definition of MAGNANIMOUS. [more magnanimous; most magnanimous] formal. : having or showing a generous and kind nature. The team was magnanimous in victory. [=the team treated its defeated opponents in a respectful and generous way] She was too magnanimous to resent all the things others had said to her. a magnanimous gesture.
1 magnanimous. â 2 No problem,â I dismissed his concerns with a magnanimous flick of the wrist. â 3 Tom Perrotta, Joe College, 2000. â¦ 4  and many of them retain a respectful Eisenhower-or-Kennedy-era view of America as Japan's usually magnanimous elder brother.ords from the Latin anima have something to do with having breath or spirit. An anim al is a living creature that breathes and can move around on its own. To anim ate something is to give it breath or life. Someone magn anim ous has a courageous spirit.