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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 J. H. Gardner Soper

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

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 Mark Twain




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