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noun

Eminence n.

That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. "Without either eminences or cavities." "The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence."

An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment. "You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty."

A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

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"Eminence" Quotes from Famous Books

... is, of course, considerable; but there is usually much to inquire into by the way. The conductors of the trains, with whom I freely converse, are often men of vigorous and original minds, and even of some social eminence. One of them, a few days ago, gave me a letter of introduction to his brother-in-law, who is president of a Western University. Don't have any fear, therefore, that I am not in the best society! The arrangements for travelling are, as a general thing, extremely ingenious, as you will probably ...

— The Point of View • Henry James

... the different kinds of poetry according to all these requisites: those which imitated nature, besides being marvellous, and at the same time of a moral aim and use, were to rank as the first and highest. And, after much deliberation, this great pre-eminence was at last ascribed, with the highest degree ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... house Zangwill remarked in a musing tone, "What fine humility, or rather modesty. I can't imagine any other man of Howells' eminence taking that tone." ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... Manhattan Island was this. To the south was General Knox, in command of a fort known as Bunker Hill on an eminence of what is now Grand Street. Near-by was General Israel Putnam—probably less known to posterity (above all, to youthful posterity) for his qualities as a commander than for the mad dash down "Put's Hill" ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... no "pricking of the thumbs" as we skirt the blasted heath on which Macbeth met the witches; the most graphic modern description of which on record was given to Henry Dixon in the following quaint form of Shakespearean annotation: "It's just a sort of eminence; all firs and ploughed land now; you paid a toll near it. I'm thinking, it's just a mile ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

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