splendour
- n a quality that outshines the usual
- n the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- Britannia in the Imperial role Increased in splendour and waxed in girth, Her island sceptre assumed control Of a large proportion of all the earth,.
- The supporters on either side a lion sable charged on the shoulder with a sun in splendour or.
- Despite these caveats, and with the help of guides and a letter of introduction from Oxford to the local authorities ("a talisman of medieval- looking splendour"), the Englishmen .