1 part of an organ in the body, especially a bone, that sticks out:
the thenar eminence in the hand
2 the title of a cardinal (= priest of very high rank in the Roman Catholic Church)
3 the state of being famous and important:
his eminence as a lawyer
So, how does this ambitious book measure up to the eminence test?
Contributors were selected on the basis of their eminence in the fields of education, social sciences and statistics.
During the final years of the 1970s, the development of two important playback devices helped to crystallise the cassette's pre-eminence.
The relation between these two strategies is, though, assymetric in the sense that perfect-being theology need not function by means of derivation of eminence.
The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence.
And, not surprisingly, economics loses its pre-eminence to other disciplines, especially law, organizational theory, and management.
How stable was the social eminence gained by these means?
Asserting the pre-eminence of the intellect, disegno is concerned with the idea of architecture not the matter of building.
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