- a variation of eminence.
eminency
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They further agree in assigning to the Parthians a respectable military character, yet one of no very special eminency.
All this is important in view of the pre- eminency of Ts'in when the time came, 400 years later, to abolish the meticulous feudal system altogether.
From Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker
Shem and Ham therefore the two heads, or chief, from whence sprang good and evil men, by way of eminency.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
Such as were really discreet as they seemed to be gave good example, and the eminency of their condition made others strive to imitate them, or at least they durst not own a contrary course.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
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 Thomas Carlyle
America has shaken down more eminencies into notorieties than any other country in the world—it is a severe and terrible ordeal for great foreigners.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The trees in vallies are on this account more injured by the vernal frosts than those on eminencies, because their early succulent shoots come out sooner.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
