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grandeur

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gran⋅deur

  [gran-jer, -joor]
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–noun
1. the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
2. the quality or state of being lofty or elevated in conception or treatment: the grandeur of a prose style.
3. the quality or state of being exalted in some deliberate way: the grandeur of a royal court.
4. an instance of something that is grand: the grandeurs of Rembrandt's paintings.
Origin:
1490–1500; < F, OF, equiv. to grand- grand + -eur -or 1

Synonyms:
3. stateliness, majesty; pomp, splendor.
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gran·deur   (grān'jər, -jŏŏr')   
n.  

  1. The quality or condition of being grand; magnificence: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God" (Gerard Manley Hopkins).

  2. Nobility or greatness of character.


[Middle English, from Old French, from grand, great, from Latin grandis.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

grandeur 
c.1500, "loftiness, height," from M.Fr. grandeur "grandness, greatness," from O.Fr. grand "great." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" is first recorded 1669.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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