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eminence
1. n. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
2. n. The quality or state of being eminent.
3. n. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
4. n. (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
5. n. (anatomy) A protuberance.
6. n. A dark purple color.
(color panel, 6C3082)

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No one, he said, who looked or sounded as he did could even aspire to such eminence.

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