eminency

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Again, many others apprehend some greatness and eminency in honour and respect among men; others in pleasure and satisfaction to their senses, even as a beast would judge.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The mother of Jesus here adopts the prophetic style, speaking of the future character of her illustrious Son as though he were already born, and had attained to that eminency to which he was predestined.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

A man of little education; bred in camps; yet of a proud natural eminency, and rugged nobleness of genius and mind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas

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.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But it is meant only that that glorious effect should be to them a sign of Christ's eminency above him; they should see from him a Baptism greater than that of John.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson