magnific
Americanadjective
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magnificent; imposing.
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grandiose; pompous.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of magnific
1480–90; < Latin magnificus grand ( see magni-, -fic); replacing earlier magnyfyque < Middle French < Latin as above
Example Sentences
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And dare earth’s bold inhabitants deny The sumptuous, the magnific embassy A moment’s audience?
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
Allow me to congratulate you," said he, "on your magnific success.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
May their magnific deeds create A glow of sympathy Which shall increase till every chain Enslaving man be snapped in twain, And universal Freedom reign In glorious majesty.
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd
Or, again, this of the sun swinging himself above the dark shoulder of Jura-- "Gay he hails her, and magnific, thrilled her black length burns to gold."
From Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp
One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
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