magnificoes
- plural of magnifico.
Example Sentences
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Such magnificoes were very proud, Howarth relates, and they fought a great number of duels among themselves over matters of military precedence.
From Time Magazine Archive
In recent years, the plain people have insisted on doing their own political thinking and casting their own votes, uncoerced and unintimidated by Governors and other political magnificoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He might get rid of the Whig magnificoes, but he could not rid himself of the Venetian constitution.
From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
They were great magnificoes, very lordly gentlemen, those Persian nobles; hijosdalgo, as they say in Spain; men of large lives, splendor and leisure, scorning trade; mighty huntsmen before the Lord.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
Those magnificoes had come to pay the poet a morning visit, and they had stayed half a day and one entire night.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
