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Nave Topical Bible
• Great Sea
Thompson Chain Reference
• True Greatness
• Mysteries, Great
• Greatness, God's
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The Topic Concordance
• Greatness
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• James (St.) the Great
• Forty Days, the Great
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Greatness
• Great Commission, the
• Commission, the Great
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Greatness of God
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Men of the Great Assembly
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Great White Brotherhood
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Herod the Great
• Alexander the Great
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Abel the Great
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Christ: the Preacher's Great Theme
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Great Sea
• Great Owl
• Great Lizard
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Great Synagogue
• Great Sea
• Great Bible
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Greatness
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Theodosius I., the Great
• Leo I, the Great
• Helena, Saint, Mother of Constantine the Great
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King James Dictionary
• Greatness
• Great
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Herod the Great
• Babylon the Great
• Alexander the Great
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• With Joyous Songs, Great Rome, Martina's Fame Exto
• Shrines in Great Britain and Ireland
• Sabbath, Great
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Great Sea
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• How Great
• Greatness
• Great
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• Great, to Be; Heavy
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Merchant Man Who Sold All That He Had and Bought the Pearl of Great Price
• Paul's Great Heaviness and Continual Sorrow of Heart
Webster Dictionary
• Tun-Great
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Nebuchadnezzar the Great
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Alexander the Great
• Alfred the Great
• Anne of Great Britain
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Alexander the Great
• Great; Greatness
• Owl, Great
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Alexander the Great
• Alfred the Great
• Charlemagne (Charles I, or the Great)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Abbas the Great
• Alexander the Great
• Alfred the Great
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Alfred the Great
• Constantine the Great
• Convent Schools (Great Britain)
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Alexander the Great
• Alexander the Great (2)
• Antiochus III. the Great
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Lexicons
• ܗܶܪܳܘܕ݂ܶܣ
• ܝܺܪܶܒ݂
• ܣܓ݁ܳܐ
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• ἀγαλλίασις
• ἀνάθεμα
• ἀναθεματίζω
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• אֵל , אֵל
• אֱלֹהִים
• אָסְפַּרְנָא
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GREATNESS, n. Largeness of bulk, dimensions, number or quantity as the greatness of a mountain, of an edifice, of a multitude, or of a sum of money. With reference to solid bodies, however, we more generally use bulk, size, extent or magnitude than greatness as the bulk or size of the body the extent of the ocean the magnitude of the sun or of the earth.

1. Large amount extent as the greatness of a reward.

2. High degree as the greatness of virtue or vice.

3. High rank or place elevation dignity distinction eminence power command.

4. Swelling pride affected state.

It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.

5. Magnanimity elevation of sentiment nobleness as greatness of mind.

Virtue is the only solid basis of greatness.

6. Strength or extent of intellectual faculties as the greatness of genius.

7. Large extent or variety as the greatness of a man's acquisitions.

8. Grandeur pomp magnificence.

Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught,

As brings all Brobdignag before your thought.

9. Force intensity as the greatness of sound, of passion, heat, &c.