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US
/ˈɛmənəntɫi/
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[ UK /ˈɛmɪnəntli/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛmɪnəntli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an eminent manner
two subjects on which he was eminently qualified to make an original contribution
How To Use eminently In A Sentence
- Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
- The idea seemed eminently feasible. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
- But he said the county, with its lakes and mountains, had an eminently marketable image that could play well with the wider public.
- The answer is that the clubs lay at the heart of industrial Lanarkshire and football was pre-eminently the game of steelworkers, miners and shipbuilders.
- [146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
- Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
- His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
- His books on diplomatic history were eminently readable.
- Recently Fuchs 14.133 has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace. News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad