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Definition of Eminency
1. n. State of being eminent; eminence.
Definition of Eminency
1. Noun. prominence or relative importance ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) eminence ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) a height or prominence; an elevated point ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) a point in which one excels; a forte ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) an outstanding quality ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eminency
1. eminence [n -CIES] - See also: eminence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eminency
Literary usage of Eminency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"... so styled in the Scriptures by way of eminency, with an article prefixed, as
the first Christian writers which immediately followed the Apostles did ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... and that end and the proportions to it are to be the measure of the usage of
those persons which are appointed to Whether the eminency of the spiritual ..."
3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"Of the eminency of mercy and grace discovered in this 'work of regeneration,
comparatively with other worki wrought in us. ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... Where #«ôç is unquestionably used in way of eminency for the supreme Deity,
as in those other places of Aristotle's before cited, to which sundry more ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... and would by no means be induced to think, that every atom of senseless matter
and particle of dust had such a privilege and pre-eminency over the souls ..."
6. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow (1818)
"... any kind of eminency ; the к«; }.vù. word prince, any priority ; the word to
... eminency ..."
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