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Word Meanings - AUGUSTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

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  • GRANDEUR
    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.
  • DIGNITY
    digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
  • MAJESTY
    The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the
  • AUGUSTNESS
    The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
  • INDIGNITY
    Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So
  • CONDIGNITY
    Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.
  • LESE-MAJESTY
    See MAJESTY
  • LEZE MAJESTY
    Any crime committed against the sovereign power. (more info) injured + majestas majesty; that is, crimen laesae

 

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