splendor
/ˈsplɛndɚ/ noun C1- Great light, luster or brilliance.
- Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur. · The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
- Great fame or glory.
Plural splendors
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She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
The two little country girls were rather abashed by the splendor of the parlor where Miss Barry left them when she went to see about dinner.
The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the warm splendor of it streamed down through the hill gaps in the west.
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