augustness

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In a photo shoot designed to showcase his augustness and length of service, Norm Maleng is dressed like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, complete with jaunty pipe and aviator glasses.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Perhaps the demise of great last words has something to do with a decline in the 20th century of the augustness of death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taste, decorum and an attitudinizing kind of augustness creep in to replace the former intensity, with the unforeseen result that Balthus seems more given to pastiche now than he was 40 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Mr. Meeson's Will by Haggard, Henry Rider

Personality dodges and flickers always between our eyes and the solemn motions, the adumbrations of the augustness beyond.

From 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 by Morris, Kenneth