All 3 Uses
eminent
in
Mrs. Dalloway
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- impeccable, substantial, as if he beheld the world from a certain eminence, and dressed to match;†
- He was alone, exposed on this bleak eminence, stretched out—but not on a hill top; not on a crag; on Mrs. Filmer's sitting-room sofa.†
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- She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable (he felt for a copper to buy a paper and read about Surrey and Yorkshire—he had held out that copper millions of times.†
eminent = respected and famous or important
Definitions:
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(1)
(eminent) famous, respected, or important within a particular field or profession
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)