Adjective : an august performance of a religious drama. ,an august personage. From Dictionary.com.
Museums don't want their augustness tainted by a succession of declining swains. From Wordnik.com. [Thanks, But No Thanks] Reference
"In ten minutes more, without fail, the water will be at right heat for your augustness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
"Say, I wan 'go in unto this place to see thad same manager, augustness," continued Jiro. From Wordnik.com. [The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three Headed Maid] Reference
The reference to the digging quote from TPM, notwithstanding the augustness of the publication, doesn't have any place there either. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmax's Kessler Scrubs Reference To His Obama Factual Blunder From His Wiki Page] Reference
Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors, than of the augustness of kingly power; he had not a regular set of upper teeth, but in the place of them one continued bone, with small lines marked on it, resembling the divisions of a row of teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
But neither consolidation nor augustness are decisive marks of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
"Then," read Cousin Bill J., in a voice meant to convey the augustness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Seeker] Reference
Death makes the meanest beggar august, and that augustness would assert itself in the presence of a king. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
Something of the augustness of the dying man seemed to rest on the grey bearded lips and solemn eyes that looked down. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Achievement] Reference
Personality dodges and flickers always between our eyes and the solemn motions, the adumbrations of the augustness beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
"Let the Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness tranquilly rule over the country of fresh spikes which flourishes in the midst of the reed-moor as a peaceful region.". From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
Wherefore they sent him down from heaven, but he did not declare an answer; and having next sent Takémikuma's augustness, he also, obeying his father's words, did not declare an answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
By the power of his eloquence; the augustness of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator; and the importance of the subject for a while superceded by the admiration of his talents. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
GRANDCHILD'S augustness, hiding in the fresh RESIDENCE, built by stoutly planting the HOUSE-pillars on the bottom-most rocks, and exalting the cross-beams to the plain of high heaven, as his. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
By the power of his eloquence, the augustness of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator; and the importance of the subject, for awhile, superseded by the admiration of his talents. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
At this point the learned Attorney-General, forgetting his learning and the exceeding augustness of his position, actually reverted to those first principles of human nature of which the Judge had spoken, and doubled his fist. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Meeson's Will] Reference
Papal diplomacy is the most skilled and artful, and full of that cunning and manipulation that plays on human nature and pours itself into its superstitions, thrilling its religious faculties with the grandeur, augustness and bright paraphernalia of its orders and the tinsilized symbolisms of its public worship and service. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
"My dear elder brother's augustness shall rule the upper country; I will rule the lower country," she deigned to hide in the rocks; and having come to the flat hills of darkness, she thought and said: "I have come hither, having borne and left a bad-hearted child in the upper country, ruled over by my illustrious elder brother's augustness," and going back she bore other children. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
And sitting closing-up the way like innumerable piles of rock in the multitudinous road-forkings, deign to praise the sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness eternally and unchangingly, and to bless his age as a luxuriant AGE. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness, which, after he had fixed upon as a peaceful country -- the country of great Yamato where the sun is high, as the centre of the countries of the four quarters bestowed upon him when he was thus sent down from heaven -- stoutly planting the HOUSE-pillars on the bottom-most rocks, and exalting the cross-beams to the plain of high heaven, the builders had made for his SHADE from the heavens and SHADE from the sun, and wherein he will tranquilly rule the country as. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
GRANDCHILD'S augustness to descend from heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
Wherefore they pondered afresh by the WORD of the heavenly gods, and having deigned to send down from heaven the two pillars of gods, Futsunushi and Takémika-dzuchi's augustness, who having deigned divinely to sweep away, and sweep away, and deigned divinely to soften, and soften the gods who were turbulent, and silenced the rocks, trees, and the least leaf of herbs likewise that had spoken, they caused the Sovran. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
Very noncommittal expressions they are, most of them, such as: "the augustness," meaning you; "that honorable side," or "that corner," denoting some third person, the exact term employed in any given instance scrupulously betokening the relative respect in which the individual spoken of is held; while with a candor, an indefiniteness, or a humility worthy so polite a people, the I is known as "selfishness," or "a certain person," or "the clumsy one.". From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
In consequence of this I fulfil his praises, and say that for the things set up, so that he may deign not to be awfully quick of heart in the great place of the Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness, there are provided bright cloth, glittering cloth, soft cloth, and coarse cloth, and the five kinds of things; as to things which dwell in the blue-sea plain, there are things wide of fin and narrow of fin, down to the weeds of the shore; as to LIQUOR, raising high the beer-jars, filling and ranging in rows the bellies of the beer-jars, piling the offerings up, even to rice in grain and rice in ear, like a range of hills, I fulfil his praises with the great ritual, the heavenly ritual. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
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