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

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

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

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

She was surprised at the accent of simplicity with which he spoke of the illustriousness of his family, of his past opulence, of his obscure labors, and of his exalted hopes.

From Other People's Money by Gaboriau, Émile

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 Bache, Constance