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adjective

Magnificent adj.

Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. "A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many."

Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous. "When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie."

Synonyms: Glorious; majestic; sublime. See Grand.

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... of the first leaves darkened, and the plants sprang forward steadily. Never before was such a magnificent beginning, a full month ahead of other cotton. The rain swept down in laughing, bubbling showers, and laved their thirsty souls, and Zora held her beating breast day by day lest it rain too long or too heavily. The sun burned fiercely upon the young cotton plants as ...

— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois

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... they had not seen; Mohammedanism was foreign to their tastes; Judaism had been found wanting; but the Eastern Church appealed strongly to their imaginations and barbaric love of splendour. Hers was St. Sophia, magnificent now, but how much more gorgeous then! Every effort was made to win them, and ...

— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

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... Sunday again, with seemingly no time between, so fast does, the old Father hasten on. Last week was memorable in the children's life by the occurrence of a party. Mrs. Emerson, with magnificent hospitality, invited all the children in town, from babyhood upwards (and their mothers), for a great festival. Rose and I were prevented from going by the arrival of three gentlemen from Boston, who stayed to ...

— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

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... time to time a black shearwater hovered over the ruffled surface of the sea, and artfully withstood the force of the tempest, by keeping under the lee of the high tops of the waves. The aspect of the ocean was at once magnificent and terrific: Now on the summit of a broad and heavy billow, we overlooked an immeasurable expanse of sea, furrowed into numberless deep channels: Now, on a sudden, the wave broke under us, and we plunged into a deep and dreary valley, whilst a fresh ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr

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... mother, a fresh previous Janet of less than thirty, had cooed and said incomprehensible foolishness to her. Tom was patriarchal because he had vague memories of an earlier drawing-room, misted in far antiquity. Threadbare? By heaven, its mere survival was magnificent! I say that it was a miraculous drawing-room. Its chairs were humanised. Its little cottage piano that nobody ever opened now unless Tom had gone mad on something for two pianos, because it was so impossibly tinny—the cottage piano could humanly recall ...

— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

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