Dictionary entry

Grandeur

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gran″deur (?), n. [F., fr. grand. See Grand.] The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show

Of luxury... allure mine eye. Milton.

Syn. — Sublimity; majesty; stateliness; augustness; loftiness. See Sublimity.