eminencen.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 287 Upon this water..pour Sweet Butter melted, to the eminence of two fingers.

a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 311 Draw the fix'd stars from their eminence.

1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 222 If a lighted candle be set..on an eminence.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 438 Wherein the eminence..shooting from the vpper part of the forehead is wanting.

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 493 The same Author hath discovered in it [the Tongue] many little Eminences.

1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. 168 There is a certain Eminence in this Edge of the Acetabulum.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 115/1 Eminence, or Woolly Eminence, is the outward skin or husk that covers round roots, as in Onions, Tulipa's.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 152 Whether the Tirranny be in..his Eminence that fills it vp. View more context for this quotation

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 29 A Womans heart, which euer yet Affected Eminence, Wealth, Soueraignty. View more context for this quotation

a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) i. i. 458 Your self A Queen of so great eminence.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 6 Satan..by merit rais'd To that bad eminence . View more context for this quotation

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxiii. 163 The eminence of your station gave you a commanding prospect of your duty.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 165 No man could hope to rise to eminence and command but by their favour.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 36 His Son made a notable progress, by an early eminence in Practice, and Learning.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. ⁋4 A young man that gave..hopes of future eminence.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 406 Several surgeons of eminence.

1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in Nature in Wks. (1906) II. 307 No man of letters, be his eminence what it may, is received into the best society.

1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 4 The poorer classes..excel..in the bad eminence of filth.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 112 Eminence in science should be made the one statutable condition [for a headship].

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 250 You should not haue the emynence of him. View more context for this quotation

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. G2 Long did we tugge For eminence.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. xxxvi. sig. Bb3 Deuotion..abates the spirit of eminence.

1653 O. Cromwell Let. to Cdl. Mazarin (Carlyle) V. App. No. 27 It's surprise to me that your Eminence should take notice of a person so inconsiderable as myself.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 8 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 246 His eminence..put on his cardinal's square cap.

1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 291/1 Urban VIII, in 1630, gave to the cardinals the title of Eminence, which was shared with them by the grand master of the order of Malta, and the ecclesiastical electors of the German or Roman empire only.

1884 Weekly Reg. 11 Oct. 451/2 One word, his Eminence said he would add, concerning the Rosary.

1935 A. Huxley Let. 5 June (1969) 396 Individual eminences are all right; but their importance, in this context, is greatly magnified if they represent professional organizations.

1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France ii. 34 The eminences of various kinds consigned to SOE as a travel agent.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. x. 41 Naturall Power, is the eminence of the Faculties of Body, or Mind.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 206. ⁋2 Men of our Acquaintance, who had no one Quality in any Eminence.

1804 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 9) ii. v. 69 [The superlative formed with very] is called..the superlative of eminence, to distinguish it from the other superlative.

1621–31 W. Laud Seven Serm. (1847) 66 Now Jerusalem is by way of singular eminence called here ‘a city compacted together’.

1699 tr. L. E. Du Pin Compl. Hist. Canon I. i. 1 They are likewise styl'd the Scriptures by Way of Eminence.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 278 Have you writ..a Play, a Song, an Essay, or a Paper, as by way of Eminence, the current Pieces of our Weekly Wits are generally stil'd.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 229 The principal council..is generally called, by way of eminence, the council.

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm ix. 253 This by eminence is the bright omen of the times.

1883 F. A. Walker Polit. Econ. 399 One kind of money..may be called by eminence political money.