Both Uses of
eminent
in
Washington Square
- Catherine was immensely struck with this conception of the affair, which seemed eminently worthy of her lover's brilliant intellect; though she viewed it askance in so far as it depended upon her own powers of execution.†
Chpt 23 *
- Driving out to Bloomingdale one April day to see a patient of unsound mind, who was confined in a private asylum for the insane, and whose family greatly desired a medical opinion from an eminent source, he was caught in a spring shower, and being in a buggy, without a hood, he found himself soaked to the skin.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(eminent) respected and famous or important
or:
describing something as outstanding, admired, or of high quality