Word Meanings - MAGNALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A great act or event; a great attainment. Sir T. Browne.
Related words: (words related to MAGNALITY)
- EVENT
1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - EVENTILATION
The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - EVENTFUL
Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life. - EVENTIDE
The time of evening; evening. Spenser. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - EVENTRATION
A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling. - EVENTLESS
Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - ATTAINMENT
1. The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones. 2. That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; , mental - EVENTUALLY
In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately. - GREAT-GRANDCHILD
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATNESS
1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon. - EVENTUALITY
Disposition to take cognizance of events. (more info) 1. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence. - GREAT
great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number; - GREAT WHITE WAY
Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases. - PREVENTINGLY
So as to prevent or hinder. - PREVENT
1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow - PREVENTABILITY
The quality or state of being preventable. - SEVENTIETH
1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age. 2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts. - SEVENTEENTH
1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11. 2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which