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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAGNIFICENCE, n. [L.magnificentia.] Grandeur of appearance; greatness and splendor of show or state; as the magnificence of a palace or of a procession; the magnificence of a Roman triumph.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" [syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness]
2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "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" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin magnificentia, from magnificus noble in character, magnificent, from magnus great + -ficus -fic — more at much Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of being magnificent 2. splendor of surroundings

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Magnificence Mag*nif"i*cence, n. [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.] The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. --Acts xix. 27. ``Then cometh magnificence.'' --Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. --Milton. The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. --Eustace.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see magnificent

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grandeur, splendor, pomp, grand appearance, éclat.

Moby Thesaurus

Babylonian splendor, brilliance, elaborateness, elegance, exquisiteness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, imposingness, impressiveness, lavishness, luxuriousness, luxury, majesty, marvelousness, matchlessness, nobility, paramountcy, peerlessness, plushness, poshness, preeminence, primacy, proudness, resplendence, ritziness, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, sumptuousness, superbness, supereminence, superexcellence, superfineness, supremacy, unsurpassedness