Word Meanings - MAGNIFICENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.

Additional info about word: MAGNIFICENCE

The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton. The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAGNIFICENCE)

• Glory
• Brightness
• radiance
• effulgence
• honor
• fame
• celebrity
• pomp
• luster
• magnificence
• splendor
• renown
• Grandeur
• Dignity
• display
• ostentation
• Pomp
• Ostentation
• parade
• ceremony
• show
• gorgeousness
• grandeur
• pageantry
• publicity

Related words: (words related to MAGNIFICENCE)

• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• RENOWNEDLY
  With renown.
• RENOWNLESS
  Without renown; inglorius.
• RENOWNER
  One who gives renown.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• LUSTER
  One who lusts.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• CEREMONY
  1. Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration
• LUSTERING
  1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
• LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
  Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• MAGNIFICENCE
  The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.
• DISPLAY
  1. An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench. 2. Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade. He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade. Byron.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
  1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• IRRENOWNED
  Not renowned.
• OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
  To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.