many-splendored

adjective

with many splendid parts

“love is a many-splendored thing”

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adjectivemany-splendored (not comparable)

alternative Commonwealth Ireland UK many-splendoured

  1. not comparablewith many splendid parts

    love is a many-splendored thing

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    'Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, / That miss the many-splendoured thing.

    c. 1907, Francis Thompson, "In No Strange Land", Selected Poems of Francis Thompson, London: Methuen & Co. (1908), p. 131

    Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne…

    1938, William Marris, "To Aphrodîtê", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford UP (1938), p. 205

    A Many-Splendoured Thing (Title)

    1952, Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1952

    2SLS is a many-splendored thing.

    2009, Joshua D. Angrist, Jörg-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton UP, published 2009, page 122
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