greatness

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Unusual largeness in size or extent or number

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The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

Noun
unusual largeness in size or extent

Noun
the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance


n.
The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

n.
Pride; haughtiness.


Greatness

Great"ness, n. [AS. gre'a0tnes.] 1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

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Usage Examples

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

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Other Usage Examples

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

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