4 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid
- And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon all the house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur—for he was "showing off," too.Chapter 4 (75% in)
- True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that—though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.Chapter 4 (13% in)
- They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.Chapter 14 (81% in)
- One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once."Chapter 17 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "grandeur" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Typical Usage
(best examples)