GREATNESS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Greatness

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/grˈeɪtnəs/ Listen

noun

Greatness n.

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

Pride; haughtiness. (Obs.) "It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships."

See images of 'Greatness'

Etymology of 'Greatness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Greatness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the hymn doesn't mean it quite in that sense. I believe the hymn refers rather to the greatness of one's attainments and possessions than to ...

— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

... are in the presence of greatness?" cried Hood. Then, turning to Columbine: "The author will ...

— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson

... (and I do not now) see why pickpockets and burglars should be entertained, and I could not grasp the greatness of the act, unless it was in the asking. However, mama urged me (she can never bear me to say no), ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... attempted to extend the Cartesian theory to social facts. He laid down that political, like physical, phenomena are subject to general laws. He had already conceived this, his most striking and important idea, when he wrote the Considerations on the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans (1734), in which ...

— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury

... boots you have!" moaned the unhappy painter; "they obsess you, they warp your judgment. Can you think of nothing in the world but boots? Look, we come to the gem of the exhibition—a velvet jacket! A jacket like this confers an air of greatness, one could not feel the pinch of poverty in such a jacket. It is, I confess, a little white at the elbows, but such high lights are very effective. And observe the texture—as ...

— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick

More quotes...