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adjective

Illustrious adj.

Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. "Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious."

Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. "Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere."

Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.

Synonyms: Distinguished; famous; remarkable; brilliant; conspicuous; noted; celebrated; signal; renowened; eminent; exalted; noble; glorious. See Distinguished, Famous.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Illustrious" Quotes from Famous Books

... immortal Nelson. Whilst other great commanders and statesmen are honoured with suitable public monuments to their fame, surely the British nation would be eager, if called on, to pay this tribute to the valour, intrepidity and success of this illustrious ...

— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... said he, that I am descended of one of the most illustrious families in England, tho', by some imprudencies on the one side, and injustice on the other, my claim was set aside, and I deprived of that title which my ancestors for a long succession of years had enjoyed, so that the estate I am in possession ...

— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood

... of which Goethe was the most illustrious representative, did much to enlarge life and ennoble the whole expanse of being, its extreme subjectivism and aristocratic exclusiveness found ultimate expression (a) in the pessimism of Schopenhauer, and the arrogance of Nietzsche. The alliance between ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

... against all opposition, fair and unfair. A group of conservative Democrats broke away from his leadership in 1838 and deprived him of a majority; in the next Congress he was no stronger, and the one measure of reform which he urged failed to pass before June, 1840. Another legacy of Jackson, his "illustrious predecessor," was a war with the Seminole Indians, who resisted removal to the western frontier; and before 1842 the suppression of these desperate natives and their slave allies, runaways from the Georgia plantations, cost the Government $40,000,000, most of which had to be borrowed ...

— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd

... forgive me, I am sure, Miss Mutimer, that I address myself first to your brother—I had almost said your illustrious brother. To be confessed illustrious some day, depend upon it. I trust ...

— Demos • George Gissing

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