grandeeship (grande ship)

[ I think the Conde de Altamira has no le than nineteen grandeeships centered in his person. grande-garde, n. See grand - guard. grandeur (gran'dūr), n. [F. grandeur, OF. grandure, orig. prop. * grand or = Sp. grand or (Sp. Pg. grandura appar. from the F.) = It. grandore, grandne , greatne , H. Swinburne , Travels through Spain, xlii. Bisnagar is the second City in Narsinga for Grande ure and Bravery. S. Clarke, Geographical Descript. (1671), p. 32. His grandeur he deriv'd from heaven alone; For he was great ere Fortune made hir so. Dryden, Death of Oliver Cromwell. There is always a want of grandeur in attributing great events to little causes. Sydney Smith , in Lady Holland, iii. grandeur I confe , what chiefly interests me in the annals of that war is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs. Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. Size is not grandeur , and territory does not make a nation. Huxley , Amer. Addre es, p. 125. =Syn, Greatne , majesty, loftine , stateline , state, dig. nity, augustne , splendor, pomp, sublimity. See grand. grandevityt (gran-dev'i-ti), n. [L. grande vita (t-)s, grandævus, of great age: see gran devous.] Great age; long life. Glanville.