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Definition of Eminences
1. eminence [n] - See also: eminence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eminences
Literary usage of Eminences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... upon the hills which overlooked the town. It was situated among lofty eminences,
and distant from the sea about eighty stadia.* About eight miles. ..."
2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"The non-articular eminences chiefly serve as points of insertion for ...
With reference to these eminences and depressions, it may be observed that they are ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"A party of Caribs at the same time encamped about Bowe Wood, at the head of
Kingstown Valley. the eminences between the Vigie and the sea. ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"To reach from the plain the loftiest summits of an Alpine country, many inferior
eminences have to be scaled and relinquished ; but the labor is not lost. ..."
5. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"... regarding the population of New Nether- land, and thereunto invite all good
inhabitants of these Netherlands by such inducements and pre-eminences as, ..."
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