Both Uses
august
in
A Rose for Emily
(Edited)
- But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.
august = greatly admired
- And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(august as in: august stature) majestic or greatly admired -- especially due to high rank or age
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, August is used as a proper noun to refer to the month that falls between July and September.