All 6 Uses of
eminent
in
Don Quixote
- To attain to eminence in letters costs a man time, watching, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestions, and other things of the sort, some of which I have already referred to.†
Chpt 1.37-38 *
- Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas; and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo Revulgo!†
Chpt 2.0
- "Recollect, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that wherever virtue exists in an eminent degree it is persecuted.†
Chpt 2.1-2eminent = respected and famous or important
- "One of the things," here observed Don Quixote, "that ought to give most pleasure to a virtuous and eminent man is to find himself in his lifetime in print and in type, familiar in people's mouths with a good name; I say with a good name, for if it be the opposite, then there is no death to be compared to it."†
Chpt 2.3-4
- Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any fame or praise beyond this.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- I am not the one to undermine the propriety of SeƱor Don Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is pre-eminent is that of modesty.†
Chpt 2.43-44eminent = respected and famous or important
Definition:
respected and famous or important
or:
describing something as outstanding, admired, or of high quality
or:
describing something as outstanding, admired, or of high quality