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Synonyms for splendor

something meriting the highest praise or regard

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Synonyms for splendor

a quality that outshines the usual

the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

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He was so uneasy lest he should lose something of his splendor, that he was quite bewildered amidst the glare and brightness; when suddenly both folding-doors opened and a troop of children rushed in as if they would upset the Tree.
"I will enjoy to the full all my splendor! To-morrow I shall hear again the story of Humpy-Dumpy, and perhaps that of Ivedy-Avedy too." And the whole night the Tree stood still and in deep thought.
"Now then the splendor will begin again," thought the Fir.
At the base of the cliff, directly beneath the Great Carbuncle, appeared the figure of a man, with his arms extended in the act of climbing, and his face turned upward, as if to drink the full gush of splendor. But he stirred not, no more than if changed to marble.
The critics say, that, if his poetry lacked the splendor of the gem, it retained all the coldness of the ice.
For it is affirmed that, from the hour when two mortals had shown themselves so simply wise as to reject a jewel which would have dimmed all earthly things, its splendor waned.
(54) He locates this in the crisis of postmodernity where he says there is no link between "reason and universal and permanent truth, [postmodernity] abandons freedom to subjectivist arbitrariness." (55) He takes the argument further to maintain that "the rupture between faith and morality gives legitimacy to a pluralism of (contradictory) ethical views." (56) Of great significance for Melina is that Veritatis Splendor gives us "precious indications for deepening moral theology and giving it its theological and philosophical foundations." (57)
Summary: Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said released the book, Ubahat al Sahra'a (Desert Splendor), ...
Heckaman kept it for himself and started Splendor Boats.
Terry Craven, an employment law consultant, spoke to the ECHO from the Carnival Splendor as it was being tugged to San Diego, California, under escort from a US aircraft carrier and two submarines.
MULTI-TALENTED classical musician, singer and presenter Myleene Klass is to be a "Ship's Godmother" for the first time and officially name the superliner "Carnival Splendor" in Dover.
Now, just five years later, Little has combined his expertise and interests to open his own corporate Web design company, which he has dubbed Pixel Splendor.
This book, with 200 full-color photos--many covering full pages--depicts waterfowl, hawks and eagles, shorebirds, gulls, owls, and overwintering birds in their natural splendor. Supplementing these photos is a foreword by former president Jimmy Carter and essays by noted writers, biologists, and conservationists.
A handful of photographs show people experiencing the wilderness or human institutions near the forest, but most are devoted to the natural beauty and splendor, as well as some of the wild creatures who make the preserve their home.