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The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

o spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity. Jer. Taylor.

sh, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor. Shak.

Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.

The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.…

In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.

Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.

Greatness of soul. [Obs. & R.]

success, prosperity, or the like; culmination. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Shak.

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.

Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a).…

Greatness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Greatness; extent. [Obs. or Colloq.] The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. W. Whately. Much of a muchness, much the same. [Colloq.] "Men's men; gentle or simple, they 're much of muchness." G. Eliot.

A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness.

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.

In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.

ty of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses:…