splendidity

A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.

1884 May 20, “The Chromo-Premium Business”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, volume LI, number 76 (whole 10,326), Sacramento, Calif.

It would, indeed, be difficult to name anyone to-day who has diffused more innocent enjoyment throughout this murky winter kingdom than Tom Smith, with all his works and pomps and Christmas-crackers, which yearly grow in size, sentiment, skittishness, and what the schoolboy called “splendidity.”

1900, Algernon Rose, editor, ‘A439’: Being the Autobiography of a Piano, London: Sands & Company, page 365

And we had to buy an extra silo to take care of the splendidity of ensilage corn this year!

1934 November 23, “Autumn Sketches in Vermont”, in Rutland Daily Herald, volume 81, number 281, Rutland, Vt., page 8

It thanks the school for its donation of £881.13 and commemorates pupils’ “total and utter red nose splendidity” — the words of madcap charity organizers Griff Rhys-Jones and Lenny Henry.

1989 July 6, “A splendid effort”, in East Kent Gazette, page 5

The reverence and splendidity, displayed by Bhikshuni Vishakha as the Superintendent of the illustrious rolls of nuns like Amrapali and Supiya26 and the magnitude and excellence, attained by Dhammadima after renunciation of the worldly life, are unparalleled in the history of the world.

1999, Prajñā-bhāratī, page 50