Noun
splendour (usually uncountable, plural splendours)
UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.
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