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
Yes, Alfred Tennyson's is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth Century.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
Hungary hailed in me the man from whom she expects artistic illustriousness, after all the illustrious soldiers and politicians she has so plentifully produced.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
You mean that I, like Carpazzi, should live on the illustriousness of my name?
From The Title Market by J. H. Gardner Soper
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 Mark Twain
