Both Uses of
grandeur
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- —how could such a magnate be expected to contract his grandeur within the pitiful compass of seven shingled gables?†
Chpt 13 *grandeur = impressive magnificence
- A person of imaginative temperament, while passing by the house, would turn, once and again, and peruse it well: its many peaks, consenting together in the clustered chimney; the deep projection over its basement-story; the arched window, imparting a look, if not of grandeur, yet of antique gentility, to the broken portal over which it opened; the luxuriance of gigantic burdocks, near the threshold; he would note all these characteristics, and be conscious of something deeper than he saw.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale