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standing above others in attainment or reputation

eminent = standing above others in attainment or reputation

eminent members of the community
an eminent physician
an eminent peak
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Joseph Addison
The Judge, beyond all question, was a man of eminent respectability.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

eminent = standing above others in attainment or reputation

Thus it was with the men of rank, on whom their eminent position imposed the guardianship of the public morals.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

eminent = standing above others in reputation

eminent = standing above others in attainment or reputation

Gilgamesh is the most glorious of heroes, Gilgamesh is most eminent among men.
Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh

eminent = standing above others in attainment or reputation

This always pleased the eminently practical friend.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

eminently = with high standing

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

eminent = person standing above others in attainment or reputation

And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,
Shakespeare, William -- All's Well that End's Well
Churchill had been recommended to the medical skill of an eminent person there
Austen, Jane -- Emma
He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
I ran across him in the street and congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the war had been rewarded.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
He did not turn aside to the cottage, but pushed on to an eminence, whence he could see over the whole quarter that had once been Eustacia's home.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
He conducts his house without enterprise, but with eminent decorum.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
During that time he was greeted by over two hundred eminent teachers and educators from all parts of the United States.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
An eminent and scholarly bishop!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Indeed, I may say—without vanity, I hope—that I held something like pre-eminence among them.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau

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