eminency

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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 Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)

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

Wherefore I honour and praise your eminency in virtue; and desire to be provoked by the exceeding piety of any of you, in all holy conversation and godliness.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

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 Bunyan, John

He says—“Sure I am that a Rose is the sweetest of flowers, and a Cross accounted the sacredest of forms and figures, so that much of eminency must he imported in their composition.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac