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单词 magnificence
释义 mag·nif·i·cence
\magˈnifəsən(t)s, maig-, məg-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin magnificentia, from magnificus noble, splendid, magnificent (from magnus great + -i- + -ficus -fic) + -entia -ence — more at much
1. — used as a title of respect applied to kings and other distinguished persons
 < your Magnificence has blood on your hands — Samuel Shellabarger >
2. archaic : the virtue recognized in medieval ethics of unostentatious liberality in expeditures of money
3.
 a. : lavish display in one's surroundings or appointments : splendor, sumptuousness
  < easily impressed by magnificence — Arnold Bennett >
  < the wooden magnificence of Georgian columns — Thomas Wolfe >
  < no greater magnificence than a Greek robe of virgin white — Elinor Wylie >
 b. obsolete : a brilliant ceremony
4. obsolete : greatness of reputation
 < and for the heavens' wide circuit, let it speak the Maker's high magnificence — John Milton >
5. : spectacular beauty : grandeur, splendor
 < a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains — Mark Van Doren >
 < spring had descended in full force … with a gentle magnificence — Horace Sutton >
6. : nobleness of expression
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