magnificence

• magnificency (obsolete)

From Middle English magnificence, from Old French magnificence.

• IPA^(key): /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəns/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧nif‧i‧cence

magnificence (countable and uncountable, plural magnificences)

1. grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

     all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.

2. The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Borrowed from Latin magnificentia.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɲi.fi.sɑ̃s/

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magnificence f (plural magnificences)

1. magnificence

• magnificent
• magnifique

• “magnificence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.