Accordingly, he sent Placidus with a thousand horsemen, and Ebutius a decurion, a person that was of eminency both in council and in action, to encompass the city round, that Josephus might not escape away privately.
I had abundant time to speak, with a great deal of freedom, on what your Eminency had prescribed to me; and the King spoke to me with an equal frankness.
Whether his courage, constancy or faithfulness had the pre-eminency it is hard to determine.
Wherefore I honour and praise your eminency in virtue; and desire to be provoked by the exceeding piety of any of you, in all holy conversation and godliness.
That he was a very fit Person, upon the Eminency of his Extraction and Fame, and the many noble and worthy Actions he had performed; so as that all present did, without any delay, unanimously approve of his Election.
Again, many others apprehend some greatness and eminency in honour and respect among men; others in pleasure and satisfaction to their senses, even as a beast would judge.
The end of our creation is communion and fellowship with God, therefore man was made with an immortal soul capable of it, and this is the greatest dignity and eminency of man above the creatures.
To the high Princess he writes devotionally, ready to obey in all things; and then to his Eminency Cardinal Tencin, it rather seems as if the tone were: "Pooh!
But does yourEminency take notice how high my connections are; what service a poor obscure creature might perhaps do the State some day?
Eminency Tencin, on Voltaire's suggestion, did so, perhaps is even now doing so; till ordered to hold HIS peace on such subjects.
His Eminency repair'd in the Morning to the Chapel of Monte-Cavallo, while the Cardinals were assembled in the Chamber of the Consistory.
Consequently his Eminency submitted to implore his Holiness's Clemency, on Condition of paying well for it; and in fine, his Pardon has been tax'd at thirty thousand Ducats.
His Eminency had ten, which were each drawn by only a Pair of Horses.
His Eminency is return'd to France, and succeeded in his Embassy by the Duke of St. Aignan.
And this an usual way to give the superlative unto things of eminency in any kind; and when a thing is very great, presently to define it to be the greatest of all.
Nothing can be finer than the Speeches which his Eminency made upon that Solemnity: As they fell into my hands, I think I ought to communicate them to you.
At the Cardinal's Table there's both Abundance and Elegance; and his Eminencyentertains in such a manner as really charms his Guests.
The next Day, which was Holy Thursday, I desir'd Cardinal Gualtieri to get me a Place where I might see the Ceremonies of that Grand Day; and his Eminency was so good as to gratify my Wish.
He that hath noteminency of parentage and birth, if he have pride will make himself a gentleman by a lie.
Is it your grace and goodness, or eminency in religion, that you are proud of?
But less, I opine, on account of the intellectual and moral qualities wherewith he was endowed, than on account of the exalted station of his kith and kin and the general excellency and eminency of his own external graces and gifts of fortune.
This indwelling of God, and consequently our enjoyment of him, begins first in its eminency by his possessing our flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.
Let us grant Christ the pre-eminency in this, as also in all other things; for he is intercessor for his church, and makes it for them in the holiest alone.
His eminency above others hath made him a man of worship, for he had never been preferred, but that he was worth thousands.
All this is important in view of the pre- eminency of Ts'in when the time came, 400 years later, to abolish the meticulous feudal system altogether.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eminency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
