All 13 Uses of
eminent
in
The Idiot
- a most eminent person.†
Chpt 1.1 *eminent = respected and famous or important
- She did not care for a brilliant marriage; she was eminently a woman calculated to soothe and sweeten the life of any man; decidedly pretty, if not absolutely handsome.†
Chpt 1.4eminently = with high standing
- At the end of that time, and about four months after Totski's last visit (he had stayed but a fortnight on this occasion), a report reached Nastasia Philipovna that he was about to be married in St. Petersburg, to a rich, eminent, and lovely woman.†
Chpt 1.4eminent = respected and famous or important
- The sight of this pre-eminently national attribute was enough to convince anybody, without words, that it was a serious matter for those who should happen to come into contact with it.†
Chpt 1.15eminently = with high standing
- Salaskin is a very eminent man, indeed, in his own world; he is a wonderfully clever solicitor, and if he really tells you this, I think you may be pretty sure that he is right.†
Chpt 1.15eminent = respected and famous or important
- But the elder brother of this same Paparchin, had been an eminent and very rich merchant.†
Chpt 1.16
- A certain Prince S— arrived in St. Petersburg from Moscow, an eminent and honourable young man.†
Chpt 2.1
- I had often heard of him as a very learned man, but an atheist; and I was very glad of the opportunity of conversing with so eminent and clever a person.†
Chpt 2.4
- All our eminent socialists are merely old liberals of the class of landed proprietors, men who were liberals in the days of serfdom.†
Chpt 3.1
- A respected, eminent old man of seventy; and exactly point for point as she described it; a sum of money, a considerable sum of government money, missing!†
Chpt 3.3
- Besides Prince S. and Evgenie Pavlovitch, we must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N.—once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.†
Chpt 4.6
- The story was so artfully adorned with scandalous details, and persons of so great eminence and importance were apparently mixed up in it, while, at the same time, the evidence was so circumstantial, that it was no wonder the matter gave food for plenty of curiosity and gossip.†
Chpt 4.9
- It was rumoured that he had purposely waited for the solemn occasion of a large evening party at the house of his future bride, at which he was introduced to several eminent persons, in order publicly to make known his ideas and opinions, and thereby insult the "big-wigs," and to throw over his bride as offensively as possible; and that, resisting the servants who were told off to turn him out of the house, he had seized and thrown down a magnificent china vase.†
Chpt 4.9eminent = 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