grandisme

Latin grandissimus.

grandisme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grandisme)

1. very big; very large
   • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎^[1], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:

     si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience

     Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts—according to his good intention—the dearest and most precious jewels he can there, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge

     (literally, “Just like the lord, who wants in tiny place to accumulate things of very great value […] ”)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grandisme)