MAGNIFICENCES

Noun

magnificences

plural of magnificence

Source: Wiktionary


MAGNIFICENCE

Mag*nif"i*cence, n. Etym: [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DISPERSION

(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”


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