grandeur

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being grand; magnificence: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God” (Gerard Manley Hopkins).
  2. noun Nobility or greatness of character.

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  • The looks on the faces of the Baptist teens experiencing their grandeur is a treasured memory. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • Compared with the plain, dull sand-beach of the rest of the coast, this grandeur was as refreshing as a great rock in a weary land. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • The stern, gloomy grandeur was alone sufficient to awaken my profoundest awe, my strongest admiration; but a warm heart-happiness stole over me, which spread a mantling glory over all the thousand dark-browed mountains that loomed in their awful majesty on every side And ever, till my heart has ceased to beat, though I should roam in foreign lands, along the castled Rhine, or beneath the sunny skies of classic Italy, Mount Washington will be to me the glory of the earth! —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • Athanasius is the hero of a mighty struggle, and the secret of his grandeur is his intense and vivid faith that the incarnation is a real revelation from the other world, and that its issues are for life and death supreme in heaven and earth and hell for evermore Sidenote: Early years of his rule at Alexandria Such a bishop was sure to meet a bitter opposition, and as sure to overcome it. —  The Arian Controversy
  • They had, therefore, come to Dresden in order to swell the pomp of Napoleon's triumph--for it was over them that he thus triumphed: each cry of admiration offered to him was a cry of reproach to them; his grandeur was their humiliation, his victory their defeat Doubtless they, in this manner, gave vent to their bitter feelings; and hatred, day after day, sank more deeply into their hearts. —  History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812
 

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magnificence ·  greatness ·  dignity ·  majesty ·  simplicity ·  elegance ·  loveliness ·  glory ·  pathos ·  richness ·  solemnity ·  wisdom
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from grand, great, from Latin grandis.

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  1. from French grandeur, Old French grandure, orig. properly *grandor = Spanish grandor (Spanish Portuguese grandura apparently from the F.) = Italian grandore, grandness, greatness, from Latin as if *grandor, from Latin grandis. grand: see grand.
 

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