- a variation of eminence.
eminency
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There would not be such strife about places of power and trust, if we were not swelled in our own apprehensions to some eminency.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
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
Those of most eminency are Christina, Brandywine, Skilpot, and Sculkil, any one of which has room to lay up the royal navy of England, there being from four to eight fathom of water.
From Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
"The passion of laughter," said Hobbes, "is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own formerly."
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
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
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
