Noun
The quality of being splendid.
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All this “magnificent idea,” the splenditude, the majesty of this is derived from the Bible.
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General Washington, in all the brightness of his fame, and all the splenditude of his popularity invested, besides, with the dignity of the Presidential office, when he came to the Senate, by appointment, to consult respecting a treaty, was, indeed, received by them standing uncovered, as in the present case, but even he was not attended and introduced as La Fayette has been, by a committee of the most venerable members of the Senate.
Now persons who are not clasified among those whom we have alluded to, have their own ideas on social subjects, and realise that billiard and card playing, loafing around pubs., patronising a play (when opportunity offers) with one’s “best girl,” and in the splenditude of Sunday attire, with a high collar and all the etceteras of masherdom, imagining that it is only a case of “look and conquer,” do not sum up the whole happiness in life.
It is practically a comic opera, possessing a splenditude of the daintiest and most catchy music of the season.
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The Gleeful Splenditude / in three acts
It is a magnificent equipage, valued at more than $2,000. It was built in Concord, N. H., in 1875, but recently was renovated into its earlier condition of splenditude.
Speaking of culture reminds me of Dr. Ripley. There’s a God’s man. Yet I have known some of his people to use him as Exhibit C in an array to prove the splenditude of this our fair city.
And we two gazed till Love’s sublimity nooned on our eyes with efflorescent splenditude of light and white effulgence of tranquillity.
It seems at first blush that English poetry grew to its splenditude in a myth void, that it was entirely individual.
Talented computer people are often ineffective managers of human resources and organisations may finish up with a large computer system throbbing power and splenditude (and eating money at a prodigious rate) with but a small elite who can use it effectively.
‘And now you’re free of your terrible burden, Your Splenditude, what are you going to do?’ said Snivelwurst.
If you really want to debate the existence of Greys, fairies, Spears of Destiny, government coverups, a single honest brain cell in Erich von Daniken's head, crop circles, pyramid power, the alien-inspired mathematical splenditude of Stonehenge, the professional nature of Mack's psychology sessions, or any other paranormal topic, why don't you do the honest thing and take it where it belongs: sci.skeptic?
What I saw Saturday night was an excess of Young Dude Splenditude — lots of the aforementioned fancy vests, coats with five to seven buttons, shirts with little black ribbons for ties, or no ties at all.
It is not I who am good, it is merely the splenditude of such a damsel as you that makes me seemeth that way.
That shinning^([sic]) example of splenditude known as AJ Rimmer
So, why can't we see you in all your glorious splenditude holding Cousin It?
I can imagine your bookshelf sighing contentedly under the weight of so much splendidness (splenditude? splendidity?)
Err, okay... the number of times someone says the word "fuck" is a criteria in how highly you rate a film? "Dude... brahs... the movie would have been pure suckage, total craptitude... but they dropped 5,000 F-bombs, so it totally reeked of splenditude and tremendosity!".
There is a program out there called ClearDesk. It hides your icons so your desktop can be viewed in all its glory and splenditude.
Nay mon caballero I am unworthy to even shine the lofty shoes of the paragon of splenditude we know and love as that dude, Ace*
Sometimes I let the splenditude of this place distract me from the tasks at hand.
A selected few of them exploded in supernoval splenditude and degenerated into neutron stars.