Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Splendid; magnificent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Splendid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
splendid
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Examples
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Now therfore beeyng accersited, to suche splendent renoume, and dignitee splendidious: I doubt not but you will adiuuate such poor adnichilate orphanes, as whilome ware cōdisciples with you, and of antique familiaritie in Lincolne shire.
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During the English Renaissance, language purists and nationalists resisted the influx of pedantic and recondite inkhorn terms adapted from Greek and Latin such as condisciple, splendidious, and adnichilate.
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