eminence

4 definitions found

eminence - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Eminence \Em"i*nence\, n. [L. eminentia, fr. eminens eminent:
     cf. F. ['e]minence.]
     1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a
        height.
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              Without either eminences or cavities. --Dryden.
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              The temple of honor ought to be seated on an
              eminence.                             --Burke.
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     2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above
        men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity;
        social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction;
        preferment. --Milton.
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              You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet
              Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. --Shak.
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     3. A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the
        Roman Catholic Church.
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eminence - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eminence
      n 1: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a
           scholar of great eminence" [syn: eminence, distinction,
           preeminence, note]
      2: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a
         muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle,
         eminence]

eminence - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Eminence, KY (city, FIPS 24904)
    Location: 38.36538 N, 85.17432 W
    Population (1990): 2055 (925 housing units)
    Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 40019
  Eminence, MO (city, FIPS 22276)
    Location: 37.14627 N, 91.35853 W
    Population (1990): 582 (303 housing units)
    Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 65466

eminence - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  169 Moby Thesaurus words for "eminence":
     Olympian heights, VIP, acme, aerial heights, altitude, apex,
     ascendancy, august, authority, bas-relief, bellying, big-name,
     big-time, big-timer, bigwig, boldness, bulging, ceiling,
     celebrated, charisma, charm, chief, clout, consequence,
     conspicuousness, control, credit, dignitary, dignity, distinction,
     distinguished, dizzy heights, dominance, dominant, domination,
     effect, elevation, embossment, eminent, enchantment, esteem, ether,
     exaltation, exalted, excellence, excrescence, excrescency,
     extrusion, fame, famed, famousness, favor, force, gibbosity,
     gibbousness, glory, good feeling, grandeur, great, greatness,
     hauteur, heaven, heavens, height, heighth, heights, heroism,
     high mightiness, high relief, highness, hold, honor, illustrious,
     illustriousness, importance, important, incidental power,
     influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, kudos,
     leader, leadership, leverage, lift, lion, loftiness, lofty,
     low relief, luminary, magnanimity, magnetism, majesty, mark,
     mastery, memorability, moment, nobility, noble, notability,
     notable, note, noteworthiness, outstandingness, peak,
     perpendicular distance, personality, persuasion, potency, power,
     precedence, predominance, preeminence, preeminent, preponderance,
     prepotency, pressure, prestige, priority, projection, prominence,
     prominent, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, purchase, raise,
     rank, reign, relief, remarkableness, renown, renowned, reputation,
     repute, rise, rising ground, rule, salience, salient, say,
     seniority, significance, sky, stature, steep, stratosphere,
     suasion, sublimity, subtle influence, suggestion, supereminence,
     superiority, supremacy, sway, tallness, toploftiness, tuberosity,
     tuberousness, upper hand, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point,
     weight, weightiness, well-known, whip hand, zenith