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Meanings of eminence in английском

каталонский
preeminència
испанский
eminencia

High status importance owing to marked superiority.

        preeminència
        португальский
        eminência
        каталонский
        tuberositat

        A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.

              eminência
              Usage of eminence in английском
              1
              They looked over the land side from the eminence of the fortifications.
              A Little Girl in Old Quebec
              2
              His pupils were legion and many of them rose to great eminence.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Not against your eminence; it is a matter which concerns myself only.
              Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War
              4
              On the brow of the eminence stood a deserted and dilapidated barn.
              The Spy
              5
              Abelard and Eloise were conspicuous in their days for eminence of merit.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
              6
              His skill in military affairs soon raised him to riches and eminence.
              The Surgeon's Daughter
              7
              The tall man occupied a position of peculiar eminence in criminal circles.
              The Stories of the Three Burglars
              8
              The goblin descended from its eminence, and directed the course of Roderic.
              Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
              9
              And none has so many opportunities of various eminence as the scoundrel.
              A Book of Scoundrels
              10
              In the distance, on a wooded eminence, sat a huge grizzly bear.
              The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
              11
              And as is the requirement for entrance, so is it for eminence.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
              12
              With the pleasures, however, he experienced some of the pains of eminence.
              Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
              13
              The circular abyss of emptiness came nearer as this rocky eminence contracted.
              Beyond the Vanishing Point
              14
              No Presbyterian of any eminence was prepared to make the statutory avowal.
              Andrew Marvell
              15
              Nysa, the other eminence of the same mountain, was dedicated to Bacchus.
              The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside
              16
              Yet monasteries crowned every eminence, and dotted the vales of southern Europe.
              Inez: A Tale of the Alamo
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              Translations for eminence
              португальский
              eminência
              Eminence through the time
              Eminence across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common