magnificence

plural magnificences · alternative obsolete magnificency

1. countableuncountablegrandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor

   all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i

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   It is to be hoped that the final scheme will satisfy all interests—preserving some of old Euston's magnificence but without prejudice to the progress of modernisation.

   1960 March 28, “Doric Arch and Great Hall at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 148

2. countableuncountableThe act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.