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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The character of being grand or great; specifically, that quality or combination of qualities in an object whieh affects the imagination with a sense of sublimity or magnificence.
  2. n. Synonyms Greatness, majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, augustness, splendor, pomp, sublimity. See grand.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
  2. n. Nobility.
  3. n. archaic, rare Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
  2. n. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Etymologies

  1. From Old French grandeur, from grand, from Latin grandis ("grown up, great"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from grand, great, from Latin grandis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • brtom I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
    Otherwise there is just no real and permanent grandeur

    Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok" Jan 9, 2008

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