Careful Words

magnificent (n.)

magnificent (adj.)

Presume to lay their hand upon the ark

Of her magnificent and awful cause.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 231.

  It is magnificent, but it is not war.

  Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.

Sydney Smith (1769-1845): America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824.

'T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law

To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): Blue Beard. Act ii. Sc. 5.