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series of
lavish and
spectacular court entertainments,
sometimes called magnificences, were laid on by
Catherine de' Medici, the
queen consort of
France from...
- Look up
magnificence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Magnificence may
refer to:
Magnificence (history of ideas)
Magnificence, one of
Catherine de'...
- The word
magnificence comes from the
Latin “magnum facere”,
which means to do
something great. The
Latin word
draws on the Gr**** “megaloprépeia”. This...
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charting pop
single by
Jazzie B.[clarification needed] His
album Terror and
Magnificence (1996)
featured Elvis Costello,
Sarah Leonard and Andy Sheppard. He contributed...
- 2003, p. 129 and
Willson 1963, p. 447: "All was
performed with
great magnificence, but ... very
confused and disorderly."
Croft 2003, pp. 129–130; "Great...
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mischief that Paul
Veronese did may be seen in the
halting and
hollow magnificences of them;—all the absurdities,
either of
painting or piety,
under afflatus...
- EIM
Group (有限会社EIM, Yuugen-gaisha EIM) ("Entertainment
Imagination and
Magnificence") was a ****anese game
development company established in 1989 by Kenji...
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obviously been
overcome to
utter it.
Waits sings the line with
cathartic magnificence, and you feel a
lifetime of tough-guy
stoicism crumbling in the face...
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Petersburg is the city of
unrelieved poverty; "
magnificence has no
place in it,
because magnificence is external,
formal abstract, cold". Dostoevsky...
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constructed of timber, and was
considered to
exceed in
splendour and
magnificence the
palaces of Susa and Ecbatana, its
gilded pillars being adorned with...
