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1. They have a revolutionary grandeur.
2. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its own.
3. Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
4. Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
5. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRANDEUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grandeur
 n.  quality or condition of being grand; magnificence
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
2  Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered himself to all blows in that tempest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD
3  The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of humanity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
4  There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
5  To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its own.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
6  Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
7  Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of poetry, he preferred the immense.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
8  The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
9  They have a revolutionary grandeur.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
10  Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
11  The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but on the side of the nation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
12  A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
13  Being of the past, he belonged to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
14  For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15  The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her loins.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Example Sentence:
1  And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon the entire house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur.
2  Don suffers from delusion of grandeur: he thinks he's a world-famous author when he's published just one paperback book.
3  The concept that matter and energy are inter-convertible strikes to the core of the universe, probably exceeds in grandeur any other picture the field of physical science.
4  And above it all the great man sat and beamed a majestic judicial smile upon all the house, and warmed himself in the sun of his own grandeur -- for he was "showing off," too.
5  Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
6  Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.