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Definition of Splendours
1. splendour [n] - See also: splendour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splendours
Literary usage of Splendours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1891)
"THE HUMAN splendours, OUR LORD'S THIRD TEMPTATION. IN the polemic of the Bread
Problem our Lord has related Himself to the ruling physical want of man ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"In the early stage of the malady, the splendours of my dreams were indeed chiefly
architectural ; and I beheld such pomp of cities and palaces as never yet ..."
3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"struck him so much as the profusion of trash and tinsel in them that contrasted
with their real splendours of embellishment. One only, that of the Cappucini ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"CHAPTER XLI COMMENCEMENT OF THE splendours AND PERPLEXITIES OF MY FATHER'S GRAND
PARADE JANET, in reply to our inquiries as to the condition of the squire's ..."
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