eminency

Example Sentences

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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 Binning, Hugh

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

And thus it is frequently used to signify quality, worth, greatness, dignity, eminency, &c., and so it may be conveniently interpreted in this of the Corinthians.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

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 Bunyan, John

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 Parker, Edward Harper