illustriousness

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Khaled's illustriousness was sealed when he won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013 for his novel In Praise of Hatred, which was translated into six languages.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023

You mean that I, like Carpazzi, should live on the illustriousness of my name?

From The Title Market by Soper, J. H. Gardner

Under the magnifying and beautifying influence of that sunset they tower upon our sight with a stature and illustriousness more than human.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Various

There were some prophets and patriarchs there that ours ain’t a circumstance to, for rank and illustriousness and all that. 

From Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Twain, Mark

I esteem it a great thing that I pleased you, who distinguish probity from baseness, not by the illustriousness of a father, but by the purity of heart and feelings.

From The Works of Horace by Horace