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- noun Plural form of
eminency .
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Examples
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For which eminencies and/or extraordinary human qualities was granted by President Obama the Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It makes me wonder what these northern eminencies will think of us.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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These eminencies you have from God are eminent temptations to undertakings against God, if not seasoned with grace and watchfulness.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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To the second, or man's civil capacity, there are many eminencies relating as peculiar endowments, which may be referred unto the three heads of ability, faithfulness, and industry; that through them neither by weakness, treachery, nor sloth, the works and employments incumbent on men in their civil state and condition may suffer.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The two eminencies of flowers, sweetness of savour and beauty of colour, are divided between these.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Christ gives himself to the soul, with all his excellencies, righteousness, preciousness, graces, and eminencies, to be its Saviour, head, and husband, for ever to dwell with it in this holy relation.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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America has shaken down more eminencies into notorieties than any other country in the world -- it is a severe and terrible ordeal for great foreigners.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Walled cities it had, and castles crowned its eminencies.
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The first question which presents itself is, What have been the ancient prerogatives of the Crown in granting dignities or pre - eminencies of any description; and, secondly, In what respect, if at all, these prerogatives have been limited or restrained by any
The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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When the skin is examined by a microscope, we find it composed of an infinite number of papillae, or small eminencies, which seem to be the extremities of nerves, each of which is accompanied by an artery and a vein, so that when the vessels of the skin are injected, the whole appears red.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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