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Definition of Grandiosities
1. grandiosity [n] - See also: grandiosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandiosities
Literary usage of Grandiosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Court Suburb: Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and by Leigh Hunt (1855)
"Sometimes, in these dwarf suburban grandiosities, the steps look as weighty as
half the building; sometimes the door alone reaches from the ground to the ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"My Constitutional Historian of England, musing on Belleisle and his Anti-Pragmatic
industries and grandiosities, — "how Chief-Bully Belleisle slept down ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"My Constitutional Historian of England, musing on Belle- isle and his Anti-Pragmatic
industries and grandiosities,— ' how Chief-Bully Belleisle stept down ..."
4. Miscellaneous Essays by George E. Saintsbury (1892)
"... could not be said to have failed; and which afforded special opportunity for
the eloquent grandiosities irresistible to almost all Frenchmen of genius. ..."
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