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

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

As I framed an inquiry I was deterred by a certain augustness in the stranger.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall