Both Uses
eminent
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
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- In the course of the day he paid his respects to Signor Pietro Baglioni, professor of medicine in the university, a physician of eminent repute to whom Giovanni had brought a letter of introduction.†
*eminent = respected and famous or important
- "Ill would it become a teacher of the divine art of medicine," said Professor Pietro Baglioni, in answer to a question of Giovanni, "to withhold due and well-considered praise of a physician so eminently skilled as Rappaccini; but, on the other hand, I should answer it but scantily to my conscience were I to permit a worthy youth like yourself, Signor Giovanni, the son of an ancient friend, to imbibe erroneous ideas respecting a man who might hereafter chance to hold your life and death in his hands.†
eminently = with high standing
Definitions:
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(1)
(eminent) famous, respected, or important within a particular field or profession
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)