Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
august ornoble .
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Examples
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The glory of God is the "augustness" of God-an old term conveying his awe-inspiring majesty.
The Christian Post RSS Feed | Business Tullian Tchividjian 2010
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I knew augustness and pride as I gazed -- pride that my eyes were blue, like his; that my skin was blond, like his; that my place was aft with him, and with the Samurai, in the high place of government and command.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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The reference to the digging quote from TPM, notwithstanding the augustness of the publication, doesn't have any place there either.
Newsmax's Kessler Scrubs Reference To His Obama Factual Blunder From His Wiki Page 2009
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Museums don't want their augustness tainted by a succession of declining swains.
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What to say, given this suffocating augustness, that would rock the joint?
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Others say to hell with augustness, get back into the fray.
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Others say to hell with augustness, get back into the fray.
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What to say, given this suffocating augustness, that would rock the joint?
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors, than of the augustness of kingly power; he had not a regular set of upper teeth, but in the place of them one continued bone, with small lines marked on it, resembling the divisions of a row of teeth.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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"Say, augustness, you look ad me liddle bit while."
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