All 6 Uses of
eminent
in
The Age of Innocence
- Most people imagined them to be the very apex of the pyramid; but they themselves (at least those of Mrs. Archer's generation) were aware that, in the eyes of the professional genealogist, only a still smaller number of families could lay claim to that eminence.†
Chpt 6
- The young man felt a touch on his arm and saw Mrs. van der Luyden looking down on him from the pure eminence of black velvet and the family diamonds.†
Chpt 8 *
- But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood; and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself.†
Chpt 16
- But his eminence as a valetudinarian now made him an object of engrossing interest, and Mrs. Mingott issued an imperial summons to him to come and compare diets as soon as his temperature permitted; for old Catherine was now the first to recognise that one could not be too careful about temperatures.†
Chpt 28
- But straws show …. and on the whole it's eminently satisfactory for all parties that this dignified solution has been reached."†
Chpt 33
- "Oh, eminently," Archer assented, pushing back the paper.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(eminent) respected and famous or important
or:
describing something as outstanding, admired, or of high quality