单词 | grandity |
释义 | grandityn. Now rare. Grandeur, stateliness. Also: an attribute or mark of greatness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] athelc885 highnesseOE brightnessOE thrumOE worshipOE highship?c1225 nobleyec1300 pridec1330 realtya1375 rialtya1375 greatnessc1384 nobletya1387 magnificencec1390 regalya1393 greatheada1400 hautesse1399 lordliness1440 celsitudec1450 excelsitudec1470 state1488 princeliness1545 kingliness1548 royalty1548 amplitudec1550 grandity1589 grandeur1600 glory1613 majesticalness1613 augusteity1615 grandezza1629 augustness1644 raisedness1645 celsity1656 splendidnessa1657 grandness1663 exaltedness1730 halo1813 queenliness1831 aureole1852 magnateship1916 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 248 And in a Prince it is decent to goe slowly, and to march with leysure, and with a certaine granditie rather than grauitie. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 1 Our Poets..excell in granditie and grauity. 1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 34 Inheritor..of his ample territories and other grandities. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian x. ii. 252 Beings so unequal in dignity and grandity. 1871 G. G. Scott Clumber Chase II. ii. 26 He was not one of your pompous household tyrants either, puffed up with grandity. 1945 M. Irwin Young Bess xvii. 191 He spoke of the grace and ‘grandity’ of her deportment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589 |
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