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Definition of Grandeurs
1. grandeur [n] - See also: grandeur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandeurs
Literary usage of Grandeurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first floor,
where it stopped. BOOK FOURTEENTH.—THE grandeurs OP DESPAIR. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It detached them from the court and taught the nobleman the vanity of life and
of ite grandeurs. Blessed John of Avila preached the funeral sermon, ..."
3. Éléments de calcul infinitésimal by Duhamel (Jean Marie Constant) (1860)
"Une des conceptions les plus importantes dans la mesure des grandeurs, est celle
par laquelle on les considère comme limites de sommes ..."
4. Women of Versailles: The Court of Louis XIV. by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Elizabeth Gilbert Martin (1893)
"THE grandeurs OF THE MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR LOUIS XV. had made his mistress what
one might call a vice-queen. She had the power, luxury, riches, ..."
5. Hymns by Frederick William Faber (1871)
"THE grandeurs OP MART. , 1. » What is this grandeur I see up in heaven, A splendour
that looks like a splendour divine ? What creature so near the Creator ..."
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