eminentadj.

/ˈɛmɪnənt/

Etymology: < classical Latin ēminent-em, present participle of ēminēre to project.

I. In physical (and obvious metaphorical) senses.

a. High, towering above surrounding objects. Also figurative. Now poetic or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > surpassing

supereminent1555

eminent1588

overpeering1598

overtoppinga1615

topping1681

1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 22 Nero..deuised an eminent pillar.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xvii. 22 Upon an high mountain and eminent .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 590 He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr.

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 363 Images..seated on the Eminentest Places of the Church.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. vi. 1446 The eminent part..is the S.E. point.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xiv Upon a stately war-horse eminent.

figurative.1830 Ld. Tennyson Love & Death In the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death.1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. iii. 87 The patriot's oath..stands Among the oaths of perjurers, eminent.

b. In weaker sense: Projecting, prominent, protruding. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective]

steepc1000

tooting?c1225

strutting1387

prominent?1440

extant1540

eminent?1541

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out1576

egregious1578

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buttinga1593

outjetting1598

perking1598

jettying1609

juttying1609

out-jutting1611

outstanding1611

upsticking1611

out-shooting1622

jutting1624

outgrowing1625

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toting1645

projectinga1652

porrected1653

protruded1654

protruding1654

upcast1658

protending1659

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raised1663

starting1680

emersed1686

exerted1697

projective1703

jet-out1709

exorbitant1715

sticking1715

foreright1736

poky1754

perked-up1779

salient1789

prouda1800

overdriven1812

extrusive1816

stand-up1818

shouldering1824

jutty1827

outflung1830

sticky-out1839

sticking-up1852

outreaching1853

protrusive1858

out-thrusting1869

stickout1884

protrudent1891

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Fj A party of the orbytall, or emynent pomall.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 198 Females [sc. elephants] carry..their Calues vpon their snowts & long eminent teeth.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 67 The..Fingers..presented in an eminent posture.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 407 The fairer [parts], eminent in light, advance.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 93 A very eminent nose.

figurative.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 289 Some eminent verse lifts its long ridge above its tamer peers.

II. In non-material senses. (Formerly often with some notion of 1.)

2. Of persons:

a. Exalted, dignified in rank or station.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > exalted in rank

higheOE

stern of slatec1300

greatc1325

differentc1384

excellentc1400

haught1470

upper1477

elevate?1504

of sort1606

sublime1606

eminenta1616

exalted1623

elevated1665

uppish1797

ranking1847

high-up1848

high-ranking1850

superimposed1861

salt1868

top-ranking1936

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iv. 21 A deflowred maid, And by an eminent body.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 141 We may not lawfully be angry..with those in eminent Place.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liv. 175 The king was too eminent a magistrate to be trusted with discretionary power.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings vi. 168 A certain native person of distinction, or eminent Rajah.

b. Distinguished in character or attainments, or by success in any walk of life. (The use in bad sense is now ironical.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective]

mereeOE

athelOE

couthOE

brightOE

namecundc1175

outnumenc1175

noble?c1225

ketec1275

sheenc1275

tirfulc1275

glorious13..

losedc1305

of great renownc1330

glorifieda1340

worthly or worthy in wonea1350

clearc1374

nameda1382

solemna1387

renomeda1393

famous?a1400

renomé?a1400

renowneda1400

notedc1400

of (great, high, etc.) name?c1430

celebrate?1440

namely1440

famosec1449

honourable?c1450

notedc1450

parent?c1450

glorificatec1460

heroical?a1475

insignite?a1475

magnific1490

well-fameda1492

exemie1497

singular1497

preclare1503

magnificential1506

laureate1508

illustre?a1513

illustred1512

magnificent1513

preclared1530

grand1542

celebrated1549

heroicc1550

lustrantc1550

magnifical1557

illustrate1562

expectablec1565

ennobled1571

laurel1579

nominated1581

famosed1582

perspicuous1582

big1587

famed1595

uplifted1596

illustrious1598

celebrousc1600

luculent1600

celebrious1604

fameful1605

famoused1606

renownful1606

bruitful1609

eminent1611

insignious1620

clarousa1636

far-fameda1640

top1647

grandee1648

signalized1652

noscible1653

splendid1660

voiced1661

gloried1671

laurelled1683

distinguished1714

distinct1756

lustrious1769

trumpeted1775

spiry1825

world-famous1832

galactic1902

tycoonish1958

mega1987

1611 Bible (King James) Job xxii. 8 The honourable man [margin. eminent or accepted for countenance] .

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 66 These two eminentest Prophets..resist the Captaines, Souldiers, and unjust Executioners of their Princes.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 60 Eminent Musicians and Poets flourished in Greece.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 407 An eminent practitioner..entertains a different opinion.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 5 Eminent cooks are paid 1200l. a-year.

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlvii. 21 Thucydides..was eminent as a speaker.

c. Eminent Persons Group, a group of Commonwealth politicians who visited South Africa in 1986 in order to investigate ways of ending the country's political unrest. Abbreviated EPG n. at E n.¹ Initialisms.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > skilled or leading > specific group of

Eminent Persons Group1986

EPG1986

1986 Guardian 5 Feb. 7/1 Sir Geoffrey won the support for the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group of the EEC–Frontline States meeting.

1986 Financial Times 13 May 19/1 Pretoria sees the Eminent Persons Group as a useful channel of communication with the ANC and the international community.

1986 Times 20 May 1/7 The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG), which is trying to mediate between Pretoria and the ANC, had left Lusaka..for Cape Town.

1987 Financial Times 10 June 10 The remark could equally have applied to..his contribution to the report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons' Group on South Africa.

†3. Of things or places: Chief, principal, important; especially valuable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > places

eminent1612

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 15 Their cheife and eminent inward parts are defiled.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 128 An eminent countrey in Idumea.

1676 W. Allen Serious & Friendly Addr. Non-conformists 176 Prayer..is an eminent part of Gods worship.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 133 If your Shop stand in an eminent Street.

1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum iii. 644 It gives present ease, and is eminent against all..pains.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 218 These Muscles..drawing the Eye out on eminent Ocasions.

a. Of qualities: Remarkable in degree; †conspicuously displayed. Of actions, facts, phenomena: Signal, noteworthy (now chiefly in good sense).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice

specialc1405

eminentc1420

markablec1449

noteworthy1552

regardable1572

respectable1584

of —— observation1587

considerable1589

of (great, little, etc.) mark1590

signal1591

remarkable1593

conspicuous1604

noble1604

observative1608

observable1609

significant1642

noteful1644

signalized1652

tall1655

curious1682

notice-worthy1713

unco1724

noticeable1793

handsome1813

epoch-forming1816

measurable1839

epochal1857

epoch-making1863

era-making1894

epoch-marking1895

high profile1950

landmark1959

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 90 The cok confesseth emynent cupide.

1454 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 38 I. 120 The emynent myscheve and ffynall destruccionne of the said Counte.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 77 After an eminent sorte.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlv. sig. Q2^v His valour..is..eminent in his killing of the Beare and Lyon.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 10 There is an eminent place in Eusebius to prove this.

1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 267 An eminent fright will take away..Agues.

1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 178 A peculiar sort of Voice..is..eminent in Quails.

a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 47 The..God of Wine, whose..eminent perfection, Drunkenness, I intend to make the Subject of..Discourse.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋1 Mountebanks..do their most eminent Operations in Sight of the People.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 5 His success was eminent.

1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. 453 The reputation justly acquired by his eminent services.

1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi ii. 65 Their opponents..were..not Achaian in the same eminent sense.

b. Crystallography. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxiii. 204 The plane of most eminent cleavage.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §1. 3 One cleavage is much more perfect, or more eminent as it is sometimes called, than the rest.

5. Law. right of eminent domain: see quots.

ΚΠ

1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer vi. 111 The King who had the eminent Dominion.

1853 T. I. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylvania 673 §3 The right of eminent domain, or inherent sovereign power gives the Legislature the control of private property for public use.

1880 A. Brown New Law Dict. (at cited word) Eminent domain is the ownership or dominium (domain) of an independent sovereign over the territories of his sovereignty, by virtue of which no other sovereign can exercise any jurisdiction therein.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 July 5/1 The State exercising its right of eminent domain.

6. Confused with imminent adj. (so frequently eminens in medieval Latin for imminens). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > imminent, near, or at hand

towardc890

comingOE

at handc1175

hendc1175

short?a1400

likec1425

near present?c1450

hangingc1503

instant?1520

neara1522

approachinga1525

imminent1528

provenient1554

threatened1567

near-threateninga1586

eminent1587

impendenta1592

sudden1597

ensuing1603

dependenta1616

pending1642

incumbent1646

early1655

fast-approaching1671

impendinga1686

incoming1753

pendent1805

proximatea1831

simmering1843

pending1850

invenient1854

looming1855

forthcoming1859

near-term1929

upcoming1959

1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 11 The eminent daungers which euery houre wee sawe before our eyes.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 172 Let..your Patient be..informed of the eminent danger of death.

1629 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent (ed. 2) iii. 286 The actuall and eminent [1620 imminent] departure of many Fathers.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 83 The eminent Danger I had been in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eminent
释义	eminentadj. /ˈɛmɪnənt/ Etymology: < classical Latin ēminent-em, present participle of ēminēre to project. I. In physical (and obvious metaphorical) senses. 1. a. High, towering above surrounding objects. Also figurative. Now poetic or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adjective] > surpassing supereminent1555 eminent1588 overpeering1598 overtoppinga1615 topping1681 1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 22 Nero..deuised an eminent pillar. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xvii. 22 Upon an high mountain and eminent . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 590 He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr. View more context for this quotation 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 363 Images..seated on the Eminentest Places of the Church. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. vi. 1446 The eminent part..is the S.E. point. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xiv Upon a stately war-horse eminent. figurative.1830 Ld. Tennyson Love & Death In the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death.1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. iii. 87 The patriot's oath..stands Among the oaths of perjurers, eminent. b. In weaker sense: Projecting, prominent, protruding. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] steepc1000 tooting?c1225 strutting1387 prominent?1440 extant1540 eminent?1541 pouting1563 poking1566 out1576 egregious1578 promontory1579 out-pointed1585 buttinga1593 outjetting1598 perking1598 jettying1609 juttying1609 out-jutting1611 outstanding1611 upsticking1611 out-shooting1622 jutting1624 outgrowing1625 rank1625 toting1645 projectinga1652 porrected1653 protruded1654 protruding1654 upcast1658 protending1659 jettinga1661 raised1663 starting1680 emersed1686 exerted1697 projective1703 jet-out1709 exorbitant1715 sticking1715 foreright1736 poky1754 perked-up1779 salient1789 prouda1800 overdriven1812 extrusive1816 stand-up1818 shouldering1824 jutty1827 outflung1830 sticky-out1839 sticking-up1852 outreaching1853 protrusive1858 out-thrusting1869 stickout1884 protrudent1891 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Fj A party of the orbytall, or emynent pomall. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 198 Females [sc. elephants] carry..their Calues vpon their snowts & long eminent teeth. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 67 The..Fingers..presented in an eminent posture. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 407 The fairer [parts], eminent in light, advance. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 93 A very eminent nose. figurative.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 289 Some eminent verse lifts its long ridge above its tamer peers. II. In non-material senses. (Formerly often with some notion of 1.) 2. Of persons: a. Exalted, dignified in rank or station. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > exalted in rank higheOE stern of slatec1300 greatc1325 differentc1384 excellentc1400 haught1470 upper1477 elevate?1504 of sort1606 sublime1606 eminenta1616 exalted1623 elevated1665 uppish1797 ranking1847 high-up1848 high-ranking1850 superimposed1861 salt1868 top-ranking1936 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iv. 21 A deflowred maid, And by an eminent body. View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 141 We may not lawfully be angry..with those in eminent Place. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liv. 175 The king was too eminent a magistrate to be trusted with discretionary power. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings vi. 168 A certain native person of distinction, or eminent Rajah. b. Distinguished in character or attainments, or by success in any walk of life. (The use in bad sense is now ironical.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective] mereeOE athelOE couthOE brightOE namecundc1175 outnumenc1175 noble?c1225 ketec1275 sheenc1275 tirfulc1275 glorious13.. losedc1305 of great renownc1330 glorifieda1340 worthly or worthy in wonea1350 clearc1374 nameda1382 solemna1387 renomeda1393 famous?a1400 renomé?a1400 renowneda1400 notedc1400 of (great, high, etc.) name?c1430 celebrate?1440 namely1440 famosec1449 honourable?c1450 notedc1450 parent?c1450 glorificatec1460 heroical?a1475 insignite?a1475 magnific1490 well-fameda1492 exemie1497 singular1497 preclare1503 magnificential1506 laureate1508 illustre?a1513 illustred1512 magnificent1513 preclared1530 grand1542 celebrated1549 heroicc1550 lustrantc1550 magnifical1557 illustrate1562 expectablec1565 ennobled1571 laurel1579 nominated1581 famosed1582 perspicuous1582 big1587 famed1595 uplifted1596 illustrious1598 celebrousc1600 luculent1600 celebrious1604 fameful1605 famoused1606 renownful1606 bruitful1609 eminent1611 insignious1620 clarousa1636 far-fameda1640 top1647 grandee1648 signalized1652 noscible1653 splendid1660 voiced1661 gloried1671 laurelled1683 distinguished1714 distinct1756 lustrious1769 trumpeted1775 spiry1825 world-famous1832 galactic1902 tycoonish1958 mega1987 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxii. 8 The honourable man [margin. eminent or accepted for countenance] . View more context for this quotation 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 66 These two eminentest Prophets..resist the Captaines, Souldiers, and unjust Executioners of their Princes. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 60 Eminent Musicians and Poets flourished in Greece. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 407 An eminent practitioner..entertains a different opinion. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 5 Eminent cooks are paid 1200l. a-year. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlvii. 21 Thucydides..was eminent as a speaker. c. Eminent Persons Group, a group of Commonwealth politicians who visited South Africa in 1986 in order to investigate ways of ending the country's political unrest. Abbreviated EPG n. at E n.¹ Initialisms. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > skilled or leading > specific group of Eminent Persons Group1986 EPG1986 1986 Guardian 5 Feb. 7/1 Sir Geoffrey won the support for the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group of the EEC–Frontline States meeting. 1986 Financial Times 13 May 19/1 Pretoria sees the Eminent Persons Group as a useful channel of communication with the ANC and the international community. 1986 Times 20 May 1/7 The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG), which is trying to mediate between Pretoria and the ANC, had left Lusaka..for Cape Town. 1987 Financial Times 10 June 10 The remark could equally have applied to..his contribution to the report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons' Group on South Africa. †3. Of things or places: Chief, principal, important; especially valuable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > places eminent1612 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 15 Their cheife and eminent inward parts are defiled. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 128 An eminent countrey in Idumea. 1676 W. Allen Serious & Friendly Addr. Non-conformists 176 Prayer..is an eminent part of Gods worship. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 133 If your Shop stand in an eminent Street. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum iii. 644 It gives present ease, and is eminent against all..pains. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 218 These Muscles..drawing the Eye out on eminent Ocasions. 4. a. Of qualities: Remarkable in degree; †conspicuously displayed. Of actions, facts, phenomena: Signal, noteworthy (now chiefly in good sense). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 90 The cok confesseth emynent cupide. 1454 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 38 I. 120 The emynent myscheve and ffynall destruccionne of the said Counte. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 77 After an eminent sorte. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlv. sig. Q2^v His valour..is..eminent in his killing of the Beare and Lyon. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 10 There is an eminent place in Eusebius to prove this. 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 267 An eminent fright will take away..Agues. 1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 178 A peculiar sort of Voice..is..eminent in Quails. a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 47 The..God of Wine, whose..eminent perfection, Drunkenness, I intend to make the Subject of..Discourse. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋1 Mountebanks..do their most eminent Operations in Sight of the People. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 5 His success was eminent. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. 453 The reputation justly acquired by his eminent services. 1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi ii. 65 Their opponents..were..not Achaian in the same eminent sense. b. Crystallography. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxiii. 204 The plane of most eminent cleavage. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §1. 3 One cleavage is much more perfect, or more eminent as it is sometimes called, than the rest. 5. Law. right of eminent domain: see quots. ΚΠ 1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer vi. 111 The King who had the eminent Dominion. 1853 T. I. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylvania 673 §3 The right of eminent domain, or inherent sovereign power gives the Legislature the control of private property for public use. 1880 A. Brown New Law Dict. (at cited word) Eminent domain is the ownership or dominium (domain) of an independent sovereign over the territories of his sovereignty, by virtue of which no other sovereign can exercise any jurisdiction therein. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 July 5/1 The State exercising its right of eminent domain. 6. Confused with imminent adj. (so frequently eminens in medieval Latin for imminens). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > imminent, near, or at hand towardc890 comingOE at handc1175 hendc1175 hendc1175 short?a1400 likec1425 near present?c1450 hangingc1503 instant?1520 neara1522 approachinga1525 imminent1528 provenient1554 threatened1567 near-threateninga1586 eminent1587 impendenta1592 sudden1597 ensuing1603 dependenta1616 pending1642 incumbent1646 early1655 fast-approaching1671 impendinga1686 incoming1753 pendent1805 proximatea1831 simmering1843 pending1850 invenient1854 looming1855 forthcoming1859 near-term1929 upcoming1959 1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 11 The eminent daungers which euery houre wee sawe before our eyes. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 172 Let..your Patient be..informed of the eminent danger of death. 1629 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent (ed. 2) iii. 286 The actuall and eminent [1620 imminent] departure of many Fathers. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 83 The eminent Danger I had been in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1420
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