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Meanings of eminence in English
Catalan
preeminència Spanish
eminencia Portuguese
eminência Catalan
tuberositat Usage of eminence in English
1
They looked over the land side from the eminence of the fortifications.
2
His pupils were legion and many of them rose to great eminence.
3
Not against your eminence; it is a matter which concerns myself only.
4
On the brow of the eminence stood a deserted and dilapidated barn.
5
Abelard and Eloise were conspicuous in their days for eminence of merit.
6
His skill in military affairs soon raised him to riches and eminence.
7
The tall man occupied a position of peculiar eminence in criminal circles.
8
The goblin descended from its eminence, and directed the course of Roderic.
9
And none has so many opportunities of various eminence as the scoundrel.
10
In the distance, on a wooded eminence, sat a huge grizzly bear.
11
And as is the requirement for entrance, so is it for eminence.
12
With the pleasures, however, he experienced some of the pains of eminence.
13
The circular abyss of emptiness came nearer as this rocky eminence contracted.
14
No Presbyterian of any eminence was prepared to make the statutory avowal.
15
Nysa, the other eminence of the same mountain, was dedicated to Bacchus.
16
Yet monasteries crowned every eminence, and dotted the vales of southern Europe.
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Portuguese
Eminence through the time
Eminence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common