grandee

Anglisy

Etimôlôjia

Nindramina avy amin'ny espaniola grande (sokajy: adjective), avy amin'ny latina grandis (midika hoe lehibe, lehibe (anglisy: large, great)). Teny iray fiaviana amin'ny anglisy grand sy anglisy grande.

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grandee

olona ambony manana ny lazany ao Espaina na ao Portiogaly
- Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become Grandees in right of their Wives. – Antoine de Brunel; François van Aerssen, A Journey Into Spain, pejy 38, 1670
- This Duke Ricardo, Señores, as you probably know, is a grandee from Spain whose lands are the best in Andalucía. – Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, pejy 185, Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003
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- I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived. – pejy 441
- Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference. – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., X, pejy 78, 1897
- For some DSA grandees, like NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism. – Simon van Zuylen-Wood, When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?, New York Magazine, 3 Martsa 2019
- It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship. – What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule, The Economist, 27 Novambra 2021