splendour

Noun

Meaning

splendour (usually uncountable, plural splendours)

UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.

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Examples

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. Robert Browning

What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. William Wordsworth

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. Aleister Crowley

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. Ayn Rand

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. Jorge Luis Borges

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. Hilaire Belloc

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