All 3 Uses of
grandeur
in
Persuasion
- Captain Harville had taken his present house for half a year; his taste, and his health, and his fortune, all directing him to a residence inexpensive, and by the sea; and the grandeur of the country, and the retirement of Lyme in the winter, appeared exactly adapted to Captain Benwick's state of mind.†
Chpt 11
- They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted.†
Chpt 12 *
- She must have been in your own circle; for as you went with Lady Dalrymple, you were in the seats of grandeur, round the orchestra, of course.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(grandeur) impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale