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Definition of Grander
1. grand [adj] - See also: grand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grander
Literary usage of Grander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"The grander and the lesser earth movements.— Upon the land the grander and ...
Each of the grander among historic earthquakes has been accompanied by ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"It seemed to me that he was never grander than on that occasion. . . . The Doctor
was himself the central figure of the hour, not merely because of his ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"To-day the same spectacle has been repeated, only upon a much grander scale.
There must have been some understanding among the incendiaries with regard to ..."
4. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1892)
"... it seems to me, reveal a much grander and nobler place for jurisprudence, and
what jurisprudence implies, in the world of human creations, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... who lived in the light of a grander day in Greece ; and he plucked pleasures
carelessly and lightly from the trees in the garden of life as he passed ..."
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