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71eminent — adjective Syn: illustrious, distinguished, renowned, esteemed, pre eminent, notable, noted, noteworthy, great, prestigious, important, outstanding, celebrated, prominent, well known, acclaimed, exalted Ant: unknown …
72eminent — UK [ˈemɪnənt] / US adjective important, respected, and admired He is one of Britain s most eminent scientists …
73eminent — adj (eminent, a) LITT framstående, utomordentlig, skicklig …
74eminent — a, eminènt, o adj. éminente ; importante …
75eminent domain — The power of the nation or a sovereign state to take, or to authorize the taking of, private property for a public use without the owner s consent, conditioned upon the payment of a just compensation. 26 Am J2d Em D § 1. The theory of such power …
76eminent — [15] Someone who is eminent literally ‘stands out’. The word comes from the present participle of Latin ēminēre ‘stand out’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and a verbal element minēre ‘stand, project’ which occurs also in… …
77Right of eminent domain — Eminent Em i*nent, a. [L. eminens, entis, p. pr. of eminere to stand out, be prominent; e out + minere (in comp.) to project; of uncertain origin: cf. F. [ e]minent. Cf. {Menace}.] 1. High; lofty; towering; prominent. A very eminent promontory.… …
78eminent domain — noun Date: 1738 a right of a government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction …
79Eminent Victorians — a book (1918) by Lytton Strachey about the lives of four famous Victorians. It was important because, with his other books, it changed the art of biography, by giving real opinions instead of simply praise. * * * …
80eminent — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, a cut above, above, absolute, aerial, aggrandized, ahead, airy, altitudinous, apotheosized, ascendant, ascending, aspiring, august, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awesome, beatified,… …
