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grandeur|ˈgrændjʊə(r)|
Also 7 granduer, 7–8 grandure, grandour, 8–9 grandor.
[a. F. grandeur, f. grand great; see grand a.
Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix; attempts to anglicize the form were made in the 17–18th c., and again by Landor.]
†1.
a. Loftiness, height; tall stature.
b. Greatness (in amount or degree). Obs. rare.
c1500Melusine xxi. 120 Whan he considered the grandeur & the facion of Vryan. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 191 Their circle spred tops, do kisse..the lower cloudes; making their grandure over-looke the highest bodies of all other aspiring trees. 1658J. Webb tr. Calprenede's Cleop. viii. i. 4 Consolations, which..sweetened the Grandure of their displeasure.
2. Greatness of power or rank, eminence, puissance. Now somewhat rare.
1616Bullokar, Grandour, greatnesse. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 497 Gentry..All which in each degree, as they illuminat the soyle with grandure, so [etc.]. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. D 2 a, Freely to renounce Glory and Granduer, to pass from a Throne to an Hermitage. 1657North's Plutarch (1676) Add. Lives 40 [Charlemain] attained to that grandure that no French King could ever before compass. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 437 The great number of Coyns and Inscriptions continually dug up in this Place, are so many Instances of its Lustre and Grandeur. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xii. 563 This was the old constitution of Rome, by which it had raised itself to all its grandor. [So spelt elsewhere in this book.] 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) II. 147 They still fondly recal the ancient grandeur of their tribe. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 26 Estimating our national grandeur by the visible pomp of gigantic machinery.
b. pl. Titles or positions implying ‘grandeur’; also quasi-concr.
1708Deplor. St. New Eng. 21 in Sewall's Diary (1879) II. 118* To Strut among his Neighbours, with the Illustrious Titles of, Our Major, and, The Captain, or, His Worship. Such magnificant Grandeurs, make many to Stagger Egregiously! 1897W. C. Hazlitt Ourselves 78 Freemasonry enables them to associate on equal terms with Brother Magnificences and Grandeurs.
3. Transcendent greatness or nobility of intrinsic character.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. i. 2 This Grandeur, and sovereign Perfection of God. 1692Dryden tr. St. Euremont's Ess. 204 The Grandeur of the Soul cannot consist with the filthiness of Avarice. 1692tr. Sallust 4 Deeds require Words to equal their Grandeur. 1712Addison Spect. No. 487 ⁋8 There seems something in this Consideration that intimates to us a natural Grandour and Perfection in the Soul. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 486 To none man seems ignoble, but to man; Angels that grandeur, men o'erlook, admire. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian ii. (1826) 16, I am ready to sacrifice inferior duties to the grandeur of a principle which ought to expand all hearts and impel all actions. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xii. 263 Men of the fifteenth century perceived honour in a murder..and historic grandeur in conspiracy. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Circles Wks. (Bohn) I. 131 The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense; all his prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur. 1856Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iii. 92 The solitary often occupy themselves with trivialities instead of grandeurs.
4. The quality of being ‘grand’ (see grand a. 4) or imposing as an object of contemplation; sublimity, majesty. Also, an instance of this.
1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 419 The Grandeur of some Scenes and the Novelty of others. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 10 That form [sc. man's], the labour of Almighty skill..bespeaks control, But borrows all its grandeur from the soul. 1817Moore Lalla R. (1824) 151 Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. ii. 49 The solemn and majestic grandeur of their Gothic churches. 1868Longfellow in Life (1891) III. 121 Switzerland..outbids the imagination by its grandeurs and perpetual surprises. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §7. 413 The genius of Shakspere rising year by year into supremer grandeur.
b. of style, composition, etc.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §15 The grandeur..of the whole books of the æneids. 1699Bentley Phal. 297 Euripides was accused by Aristophanes..for debasing the Majesty and Grandure of Tragedy. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. x. 441 Who can deny the superhuman grandeur and impressiveness of that sacred book, the Apocalypse? 1897Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 4/3 The grandeur which is the chief characteristic of the Latin hexameter.
5. Conscious greatness, lofty dignity. † Also, in bad sense, haughtiness, arrogance. Obs.
1644[H. Parker] Jus Pop. 20 That arrogant tumor or grandour of mind which is incompatible with brotherly demeanour. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §48 The earl of Essex, still preserving his grandeur and punctuality, positively refused to meddle in the treaty. 1797Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 41 The tranquil grandeur of an elevated mind. 1851Landor Popery Brit. & For. 60 Disdain for popularity, unobtrusive wisdom, sedate grandor. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 23 As you go North..as you enter Scotland, the World's Englishman is no longer found..there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners.
6. Magnificence or splendour of appearance, style of living, trappings, etc., such as attends wealth or high station. Also pl.
1652H. Cogan tr. Scudery's Ibrahim i. v. 111, I have a desire..to acquaint her with all the magnificences, and all the grandeurs which you have quitted for her sake. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 26 He undertook to abate of our Episcopall Grandeur, and condescended indeed to reduce the Ceremonious Discipline in these Nations to the Primitive Simplicity. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 173 The love of grandure and magnificence, wrong turn'd, may have possess'd his imagination over-strongly with such things as frontispieces, parterres, equipages [etc.]. 1784Cowper Task v. 158 Nor wanted aught within, That royal residence might well befit, For grandeur or for use. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. xviii. (1857) 314, I was placed rather high for witnessing with the right feeling the gauds and the grandeurs [of the Lord Mayor's procession]. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn) II. 80 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy. 1868Earl Wilton Sports of Eng. 91 Louis then returned to his palace..ready to proceed with the other methodical..grandeurs of the day. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xi. 93 Leghorn bonnets were a newly-imported test of station, grandeur and gentility in Poganuc.
Hence † ˈgrandeurship = grandeeship.
1692tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (ed. 2) 112 The Heiress of the House and Grandeurship of Castle Rodrigue. |