prestige

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  1. noun The level of respect at which one is regarded by others; standing.
  2. noun A person's high standing among others; honor or esteem.
  3. noun Widely recognized prominence, distinction, or importance: a position of prestige in diplomatic circles.

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  • As an old and dear friend of Prentiss's his prestige was almost restored. —  The Fighting Shepherdess
  • The effect of even a single mounted policeman's personality upon a lawless mob requires to be seen to be fully appreciated, and there were countless occasions where the qualities of tact and readiness of resource were required to supplement the prestige which is begotten of discipline alone It would be impossible to estimate the thousands of men that have passed hither and thither along the line during its construction. —  Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
  • Moreover, The Times possesses an enormous prestige--deservedly won, as this article has endeavored to show--and that, in a conservative country like England, is considerably more than half the battle In 1842 appeared the first pictorial newspaper, The Illustrated London News_. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Although much of his prestige was gone, they never made little of Napoleon. —  The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo
  • The first was a man of great renown and prestige, and he made a very beautiful, lofty, and tender discourse; but, from some shyness or gravity of nature, he never smiled nor looked at his audience; and thus, fine though his speech was, he never got into touch with us at all. —  Joyous Gard
 

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  1. French, illusion, from Latin praestīgiae, tricks, probably alteration of *praestrīgiae, from praestringere, to touch, blunt, blind : prae-, pre- + stringere, to draw tight; see streig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French prestige = Spanish Portuguese prestigio = Italian prestigio, prestigia, illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige, from Latin præstigium, a delusion, an illusion; cf. præstigiæ, deception, jugglers' tricks, from præstinguere, obscure, extinguish, from præ, before, + stinguere, extinguish: see distinguish, etc.
 

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