Definition of "magnificence"

magnificence

/mæɡˈnɪfɪsəns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural magnificences
1. grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
  Quotations
  all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene i
2. The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.