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magnificence

Noun

Meaning

The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. Thomas Chalmers

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. Charles Williams

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars. D. H. Lawrence

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand

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