many-splendored

adj

many-splendored

adj
1

with many splendid parts

  • love is a many-splendored thing
  • 'Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, / That miss the many-splendoured thing.c. 1907, Francis Thompson, "In No Strange Land", Selected Poems of Francis Thompson, London: Methuen & Co. (1908), p. 131
3 more examples
  • Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne…1938, William Marris, "To Aphrodîtê", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford UP (1938), p. 205
  • A Many-Splendoured Thing (Title)1952, Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1952:
  • 2SLS is a many-splendored thing.2009, Joshua D. Angrist, Jörg-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton UP, published 2009, page 122:

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