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Definition of Magnificence
1. Noun. Splendid or imposing in size or appearance. "Impressed by the richness of the flora"
Generic synonyms: Excellence
Specialized synonyms: Expansiveness, Expansivity, Loftiness, Majesty, Stateliness
Derivative terms: Grand, Grand, Grand, Impressive, Magnificent, Rich, Rich
2. Noun. The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand. "Advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"
Generic synonyms: Elegance
Specialized synonyms: Eclat
Derivative terms: Brilliant, Brilliant, Grand, Grand, Grand, Magnificent
Definition of Magnificence
1. n. The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
Definition of Magnificence
1. Noun. grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor ¹
2. Noun. The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. ¹
3. Noun. impressiveness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Magnificence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Magnificence
1. The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. "Then cometh magnificence." . "And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious." (Milton) "The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence." (Eustace) Origin: F. Magnificence, L. Magnificentia. See Magnific. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnificence
Literary usage of Magnificence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"magnificence magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion
of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is magnificent. ..."
2. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"man, who had not a cent, used to say he was the most startling example of
magnificence and misery the world had ever seen —because he was able to ride a ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1899)
"The pride, or rather the policy, of Diocletian, engaged that artful prince to
introduce the stately magnificence of the court of Persia.101 He ventured to ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam (1839)
"Luxury end magnificence. What made the Persian troops in Cyrus's time to be looked
upon as invincible, was the temperate and hard life to which they were ..."
5. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni, Hugh Murray, Société de géographie (France) (1852)
"I.—Power and magnificence of Kublai. Now I am to give you a wonderful account of
the greatest king of the Tartars, still reigning, named Kublai, ..."
6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... with a careful magnificence: Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a
... magnificence ..."
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