Meanings
- uncountableGrandeur, greatness, magnificence.
Society went on excellently well without houses, or carriages, or jewels, or toilettes, or pavements, or shops, or grandezza of any sort; and the market was excellent as well as cheap.
1907, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, published 1918 - uncountableStateliness, dignity.
- uncountableMagnanimity.
Origin
- Italiangrandezza
- Italiangrandezza
- Englishgrandezza
Borrowed from Italian grandezza.
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