Word Finder - eminence

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Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.

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The quality or state of being eminent.

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Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.

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An elevated land area or a hill.

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A protuberance.

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A dark purple color.

People with eminence are highly regarded in their respective fields.

Here he rose rapidly to eminence both at the bar and in politics.

He got rid of all whom he disliked on the charge of having taken part in the conspiracy, and no man of eminence was safe against him.

On an eminence stands the ancient castle, entered by a gateway of the 13th century.

With old age, the man was regarded to have eminence in wisdom.

The man with scientific eminence won the Nobel Prize last year.

Avlona occupies an eminence near the Gulf of Avlona, an inlet of the Adriatic, almost surrounded by mountains.

The town is built on a rocky eminence on the right bank of the Steine.

It is well situated, mainly on an eminence, near the junction of the Aire and the Calder.

It is beautifully situated on an eminence 200 ft.

It is beautifully situated on a steep eminence rising abruptly from the Blackwater.

Romans stands on an eminence on the right bank of the Isere, a fine stone result will be the inclusion of all Israel in the heritage of the messianic kingdom of Christ.

His father, a physician of some eminence, settled in Florence, and attached himself to the person of Cosimo de' Medici.

Innocent was a canon lawyer of some eminence.

Despite the low expectations the community had for her, Emily went to a prestigious university and achieved eminence in the medical field.

When the state began to honor their representative with respect, he gained political eminence across the nation.

Bagdad, accordingly, although fallen from its first eminence, continued to be a city of the first rank, and during most of that period still the richest and most splendid city in the world.

No other writer of such eminence is so rarely quoted; none is so entirely destitute of the tribute of new and splendid editions.

He became grand officer of the Legion of Honour in 1861, and during the later years of his life received from many quarters public recognition of his eminence as a political economist.

It lies on a gentle eminence in the flat fen country, and the fine Perpendicular tower and spire of the church of St Mary are a landmark from far.

It is pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence near the confluence of the upper branches of the river Stour.

Chinon lies at the foot of the rocky eminence which is crowned by the ruins of the famous castle.

Adopting the profession of an advocate, he came to Constantinople and practised in the prefectural courts there, reaching such eminence as to attract the notice of the emperor Justinian, who appointed him in 528 one of the ten commissioners directed to prepare the first Codex of imperial constitutions.

Its eminence, however, was so largely based upon dalliance with Roman society, its weakness so great in having only a mythical character, instead of a personality, as an object of adoration, and in excluding women from its privileges, that it fell rapidly before the assaults of Christianity.

The parish church, effectively situated on an eminence by the side of the lake, was the scene of the ministration of the Rev. John Thomson (1778-1840), the landscape painter, who numbered Sir Walter Scott among his elders.

The town-hall, a large florid building of Classic order, stands on an eminence, and its clock tower forms a landmark; it contains the spacious Centennial Hall (commemorating the first Australian colonization here in 1787), and has one of the finest organs in the world.

He supported the government in its attempts to subdue by legislation the Socialists, Poles and Catholics; and he was one of the few men of eminence who gave the sanction of his name to the attacks on the Jews which began in 1878.

He is said to have owed the favour of the great as much to his personal gifts and graces as to his literary eminence; and in one of his prologues he declares it to be his ambition, while not offending the many, to please the "boni."

The original city grew up on the site of the City of London of the present day, on a slight eminence intersected by the Walor Wall-brook, and flanked on the west by the river Fleet.

Among the public buildings are several churches and hospitals (including the Jurujuba yellow-fever hospital and the Barreto isolation hospital), the government palace, a municipal theatre and a large Salesian college situated in the suburbs of Santa Rosa on an eminence overlooking the lower bay.

It occupies a fine position on and about a rocky eminence on the left bank of the river Wye.

His eminence as a man of science must be measured by his only original work in that department, - the construction, namely, of the new science of society.

The power of the priesthood rests upon special knowledge of man and nature; but to this intellectual eminence must also be added moral power and a certain greatness of character, without which force of intellect and completeness of attainment will not receivethe confidence they ought to inspire.

In the field of landscape the Japanese painter fully reached the eminence on which his great Chinese masters stood.

Ozui and Ojyu, the sons of OkyO, painted in the style of their father, but failed to attain great eminence.

Nearly in the centre of Kojimachi-ku, on an eminence, surrounded by moats, stood the castle of Yedo, formerly the residence of the shoguns, which was burnt down in 1873.

The castle, lying on a rocky eminence, is remarkable for the peace signed here on the 22nd of April 1745 between the elector Maximilian III., Joseph of Bavaria and Maria Theresa.

In this way a question of the most temporary interest, concerning an individual of no particular eminence or importance, has produced one of the most impressive vindications of literature ever spoken or written.

Berkeley Castle, on an eminence south-east of the town, is one of the noblest baronial castles existing in England, and one of the few inhabited.

From 1748 until his death on the 28th of August 1805 he was minister at Inveresk in Midlothian, and during this long career rose to high eminence in his church not only as leader of the moderate or "broad" Church section, but as moderator of the General Assembly 1770 and dean of the Chapel Royal in 1789.

Chaumont is picturesquely situated on an eminence between the rivers Marne and Suize in the angle formed by their confluence.

Three miles from Zwolle, on a slight eminence called the Agnietenberg, or hill of St Agnes, once stood the Augustinian convent in which Thomas Kempis spent the greatest part of his life and died in 1471.

In 1873 President Grant nominated him for chief justice of the United States, but in spite of his great learning and eminence at the bar, his ante-war record and the feeling of distrust experienced by many members of the senate on account of his inconsistency, aroused such vigorous opposition that his nomination was soon withdrawn.

Garrick was surrounded by many players of eminence, and he had the art, as he was told by Mrs Clive, " of contradicting the proverb that one cannot make bricks without straw, by doing what is infinitely more difficult, making actors and actresses without genius."

The influence of the Swabian branch of the Hohenzollerns was weakened by several partitions of its lands; but early in the 16th century it rose to some eminence through Count Eitel Frederick II.

It has on one side the citadel, erected on an artificially made eminence 45 ft.

He attained to some eminence as a painter, and his Digte show him to have been a true poet.

He was perhaps the first Roman born beyond the Alps who attained eminence in literature.

A grammar-school was founded at Midhurst in 1672 and attained some eminence.

It is picturesquely situated on an eminence, two sides of which are touched by the river Nene, which here makes a deep bend.