单词 | grandeur |
释义 | gran·deur 1. archaic < exalted to this prodigious grandeur, Alexander was at the time of his death little more than thirty-two years old — George Grote > 2. a. < in those rural epics … the descendants lose the grandeur of those who first settled on the land — Sidney Alexander > < the moral grandeur of the pioneer — C.I.Glicksberg > b. < that lofty grandeur of the diction of the English Bible — J.L.Lowes > < the sweetness or the grandeur expected of religious music — Time > < the inability of men to sustain the grandeur of their own ideal conceptions — Times Literary Supplement > 3. a. < a scenic grandeur in the wide view of mountains and valleys > < the grandeur of the wild wintry seas — L.D.Stamp > < the former grandeur of the queer castlelike homes of the Victorian era — American Guide Series: Tennessee > b. < the most delightful of southern towns was almost certain to mix a little squalor with its grandeurs — Donald Davidson > |
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