eminency

Consider Hobbes: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden conception of eminency in ourselves by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own formerly."

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning

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

Again: As by corrupt, we may understand, corrupt by way of eminency; so again, they were corrupt incurably.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

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 Francis Augustus Cox

This name is clear, “he is a God of truth,” not only a true God, but truth itself: to note his excellency and eminency in it.

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

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