many-splendored

English

Alternative forms

• many-splendoured (British, Commonwealth, Ireland)

Adjective

many-splendored (not comparable)

1. with many splendid parts

   love is a many-splendored thing

   • c. 1907, Francis Thompson, "In No Strange Land", Selected Poems of Francis Thompson, London: Methuen & Co. (1908), p. 131

     'Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, / That miss the many-splendoured thing.

   • 1938, William Marris, "To Aphrodîtê", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford UP (1938), p. 205

     Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne…

   • 1952, Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1952:

     A Many-Splendoured Thing (Title)

   • 2009, Joshua D. Angrist, Jörg-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton UP, published 2009, page 122:

     2SLS is a many-splendored thing.