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1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xiv. 208 That the Prince may appear..an Inheritour of all those bountifull ingenuities and heroique Grandnesses that do adorn and belustre the mindes and discourses of Princes.

1716 L. Howel Compl. Hist. Holy Bible III. iv. 76 Justly concluding from the Grandness of the Action, that nothing but an Almighty Power could do such Things.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature (1724) v. 80 The grandness of this fabric of the world.

1832 Phrenol. Jrnl. 7 623 When I read Milton's Paradise Lost, I see a certain grandness of conception.

1871 R. Browning Balaustion 77 He did too many grandnesses, to note Much in the meaner things about his path.

1893 W. A. P. Martin in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. II. 1142 Had Columbus realized the grandness of his discovery.

1928 Boys' Life Apr. 47/3 The wildness and grandness not only of Africa herself, but of the host of picturesque wild beasts that still populate her plains and mountains.

1976 Field & Stream Oct. 187/3 I feel sorry for them, because they will forever miss the grandness of being afield in autumn.

2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. viii. xxxv. 414 With all the grandness and civility befitting the Hapsburg Court, he had let Vladimir cut in front of him on the line for the pissoir.