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em·i·nen·cy

(ĕm′ə-nən-sē)

n. pl. em·i·nen·cies

Eminence.

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em•i•nence

(ˈɛm ə nəns)

n.

1. high station, rank, or repute.

2. a high elevation; hill or height.

3. (cap.) a title of honor, applied to cardinals (usu. prec. by His or Your).

4. an anatomical projection, esp. on a bone.

[1375–1425; late Middle English < Anglo-French < Latin]

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A position of exalted widely recognized importance:

distinction, eminence, fame, glory, illustriousness, luster, mark, notability, note, preeminence, prestige, prominence, prominency, renown.

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This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in Burke, in Byron, in Carlyle,--the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.

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Locke (1690) characterizes argument from authority, ad verecundiam, as derived from persons "whose parts, learning, eminency, power, or some other cause, has gained a name, and settled their reputation" (p.