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parvanimity
"Smallness of mind, meanness; an example of this", Late 17th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Boyle (1627–1691), natural philosopher. From classical Latin
parvus
small +
animus
mind + -ity, probably formed as an antonym of magnanimity.