All 10 Uses of
eminent
in
David Copperfield
- I had been very happy there, I had a great attachment for the Doctor, and I was eminent and distinguished in that little world.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- I was got up in a special great-coat and shawl, expressly to do honour to that distinguished eminence; had glorified myself upon it a good deal; and had felt that I was a credit to the coach.†
Chpt 19-21
- I am the umble instrument of umbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could have hoped to reach.†
Chpt 25-27
- I have already some acquaintance with the law — as a defendant on civil process — and I shall immediately apply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists.†
Chpt 34-36
- It is my intention, my dear Copperfield, to educate my son for the Church; I will not deny that I should be happy, on his account, to attain to eminence.'†
Chpt 34-36
- Let it be, in justice, merely said of me, as of a gallant and eminent naval Hero, with whom I have no pretensions to cope, that what I have done, I did, in despite of mercenary and selfish objects, For England, home, and Beauty.†
Chpt 52-54
- But there was no vacancy for a tenor in the venerable Pile for which this city is so justly eminent; and he has — in short, he has contracted a habit of singing in public-houses, rather than in sacred edifices.'†
Chpt 52-54
- However vigorous the sapling,' said Mrs. Micawber, shaking her head, 'I cannot forget the parent-tree; and when our race attains to eminence and fortune, I own I should wish that fortune to flow into the coffers of Britannia.'†
Chpt 55-57
- My disposition is, if I may say so, eminently practical.†
Chpt 55-57
- I was looking back to the name of Doctor Mell, pleased to have discovered, in these happier circumstances, Mr. Mell, formerly poor pinched usher to my Middlesex magistrate, when Mr. Peggotty pointing to another part of the paper, my eyes rested on my own name, and I read thus: ' TO DAVID COPPERFIELD, ESQUIRE, 'THE EMINENT AUTHOR.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(eminent) respected and famous or important
or:
describing something as outstanding, admired, or of high quality