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Eminent   /ˈɛmənənt/   Listen
Eminent

adjective
1.
Standing above others in quality or position.  Synonym: high.  "The high priest" , "Eminent members of the community"
2.
Of imposing height; especially standing out above others.  Synonyms: lofty, soaring, towering.  "Lofty mountains" , "The soaring spires of the cathedral" , "Towering icebergs"



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"Eminent" Quotes from Famous Books



... in your Sunday-school Library, and the Life of Brainerd[5] also, of whom I will tell you a few things. But I advise you to read both books, for such short remarks as I make cannot be distinctly remembered; and the characters of these eminent men you will only understand by reading ...
— History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians • George Mogridge

... of hate, the Red House lodgers were a happy set of revolutionaries. Real revolutionaries; having their leaflets printed by secret presses; members of societies which exchanged confidential letters with the more eminent Russians, such as Litvinoff and Trotzky, collected for future publication secret circulars, private strike-breaking orders, and other obiter dicta of a rash government, and believed themselves to be working to establish the Soviet government over Europe. They had been angry all this summer ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay

... miscent superis.] A manner of expression not unusual amongst the Greeks and Latins, for any eminent degree of happiness. Unless we adopt this explanation of the words, says Dacier, we shall make Horace guilty of a manifest contradiction, since a few lines farther he tells his Patron, that his suffrage, not the ivy crown is that, which will exalt him to the skies. The judicious emendation ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward

... good you are!" said Barbarina, in a slightly mocking tone. "I have but just returned to Berlin, and you gladden my heart again by your visit, and grant me the distinction and privilege of receiving in my house one of the most eminent and virtuous ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach

... an eminent English engineer, born in Norfolk; more or less employed in most of the great engineering ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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