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Splendor   /splˈɛndər/   Listen
Splendor

noun
1.
A quality that outshines the usual.  Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendour.
2.
The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand.  Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendour.  "His 'Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects" , "It is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor" , "An imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art" , "Advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"






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"Splendor" Quotes from Famous Books



... is throughout characteristic; the energy of fire, the splendor of light, she shuts up in hard stone, the tender soul of melody in severe metal; even on the threshold of Life, and already meditating organic shape, she sinks back overpowered by the might of ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various

... daylight, it resembles a bacchanalian fete in the days of the Romans. But all through it, one is impressed by its artistic completeness, its studied splendor, and permissible license, so long as a costume (or the lack of it) produces an artistic result. One sees the mise en scene of a barbaric court produced by the architects of an atelier, all the various details constructed from carefully studied sketches, with maybe a triumphal ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith

... wonder at these— God made the splendor of sunsets and trees; God made vast mines where a world's wealth is piled, Then God made the hands of ...
— Cross Roads • Margaret E. Sangster

... himself so valiantly and could make songs of such surpassing sweetness, should be so downcast and discomfited in the presence of her eighteen years. However that may be, she addressed him, and the sound of her voice fell very fresh and soft upon his ears, enriching the summer splendor of the night with its music as her beauty enhanced its glory with the glory of her bodily presence. "What have you to say to me," she asked, "that is so urgent that it ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... and throbbing with transparent tints of amber and purple and green, with flecks of cloud floating across it of a pale gold. Eastward it was still blue, but fading into a faint gray. The dusky green of the cypresses looked black, as I turned my splendor-dazzled eyes toward them. ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton


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