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  • adjective comparative form of grand: more grand

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Examples

  • Others talk in grander terms, suggesting that information deserves full equality with matter and energy, that it should join them in some sort of scientific trinity, that these three things are the main ingredients of reality.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • As this is repeated in grander style on Easter Sunday, there is usually no great concourse of spectators.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • Some of the guests thought they should have been feasted in grander rooms; others were vexed to see many finer than themselves.

    Granny's Wonderful Chair 1928

  • The four years have passed, and the Republic is not gone, thank God, but stands out in grander proportions, is established upon a firmer foundation than ever before.

    Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln. 1865

  • Even grander is TIGGE, in which the output of lots of operational EPS’s are combined into an archive.

    Liveblogging the AGU – part 2 | Serendipity 2009

  • Even grander is TIGGE, in which the output of lots of operational EPS’s are combined into an archive.

    2009 May 27 | Serendipity 2009

  • Even grander is TIGGE, in which the output of lots of operational EPS’s are combined into an archive.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • And it seems plain enough that, the larger the number and variety of parts embraced in the work, or the more diversified it is in matter and movement, the greater the strength of faculty required for keeping every thing within the terms of Art; while, provided this be done, the grander is the impression produced, and the higher is the standing of the work as an intellectual achievement of man.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • The higher it goes up the harder it will come down and the grander will be the divine vindication.

    New Tabernacle Sermons 1867

  • And it seems plain enough that, the larger the number and variety of parts embraced in the work, or the more diversified it is in matter and movement, the greater the strength of faculty required for keeping every thing within the terms of Art; while, provided this be done, the grander is the impression produced, and the higher is the standing of the work as an intellectual achievement of man.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

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