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eminence
[ em-uh-nuhns ]
noun
- high station, rank, or repute:
philosophers of eminence.
Synonyms: conspicuousness, fame, note
Antonyms: obscurity
- a high place or part; a hill or elevation; height.
Synonyms: prominence
- (initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Church. a title of honor, applied to cardinals (usually preceded by His or Your ).
- Anatomy. an elevation or projection, especially on a bone.
Eminence
1/ ˈɛmɪnəns /
noun
- preceded byYour or His a title used to address or refer to a cardinal
eminence
2/ ˈɛmɪnəns /
noun
- a position of superiority, distinction, high rank, or fame
- a high or raised piece of ground
- anatomy a projection of an organ or part
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of eminence1
Example Sentences
“He was very bitter,” says longtime Granite State Republican eminence and former state attorney general Tom Rath.
The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”
Or, in the case of Bob Dole, they retired to a sort of a bipartisan eminence and were mostly forgotten.
Tayoun served almost three years, but remained an eminence on the Philadelphia political scene.
“Mr. de la Renta is far more a hot dog than an eminence grise of American fashion” Horyn wrote in her review.
All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.
He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.
He was the son of a miller, and raised himself to eminence by his great talent and genius as a painter.
There was another theory promulgated many years back by certain people of some degree of eminence in their own walk in life.
We did not perceive the little town until we had surmounted the last eminence and were in its immediate vicinity.
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