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Distinction - high ground
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eminence
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES eminence grise ▪ Borusa had no wish to become president, instead preferring to operate as an eminence grise behind the scenes. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ De Mille has a perspective that comes only with age and eminence ...
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n. high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: distinction , preeminence , note ] a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity , tubercle ]
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Eminence may refer to:
Usage examples of eminence.
Eminences and of all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion justly conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
I therefore wrote a short Latin letter, which I enclosed in another to Winckelmann, whom I begged to present my offering to his eminence.
His eminence came to see me, and told me that I ought to be guided by my confessor.
The singular compliment delighted him, and I saw all the use I could make of his eminence.
Yohl-Gharr Wyrrijk, stood on an eminence some feet above them, watching as a mixed party of warrior gillots and creaghts under his orders crept up on the defenceless group.
He developed great readiness as a debater, and his career in the House plainly indicated the eminence he has since attained.
If his eminence did not know how to write poetry, at least he knew how to be generous, and in a delicate manner, and that science is, at least in my estimation, superior to the other for a great nobleman.
Bonneval gave me a letter for Cardinal Acquaviva, which I sent to Rome with an account of my journey, but his eminence did not think fit to acknowledge the receipt of either.
Your Eminence, it is fomentation of the most disgusting sort, calling for revolution, brigandage and the atheistic folly of separation of church and state.
Rhine and the Danube, he had selected this eminence on which to place his substantial gambrel roofed dwelling-house.
In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
Father Georgi invited me to take a cup of chocolate with him, and informed me that the cardinal had been apprised of my arrival by a letter from Don Lelio, and that his eminence would receive me at noon at the Villa Negroni, where he would be taking a walk.
I answered that, until now, I had not felt in me any but frivolous tastes, but that I would make bold to answer for my readiness to execute all the orders which his eminence might be pleased to lay upon me, if he should judge me worthy of entering his service.
As the marchioness in her verses had made a pompous enumeration of every physical and moral quality of his eminence, it was of course natural that he should return the compliment, and here my task was easy.
The cardinal left me, and everybody imagined that his eminence had spoken to me of state affairs.