From Middle English magnificence, from Old French magnificence.

• IPA: /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəns/

magnificence

1. grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i ↗:

     all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.

2. The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

• Portuguese: magnificência
• Spanish: magnificencia