Dictionary entry

Magnificence

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mag‐nif″i‐cence (?), n. [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.] The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. “Then cometh magnificence.” Chaucer.

And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak

The Maker's high magnificence, who built

so spacious. Milton.

The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence.Eustace.