Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being illustrious; eminence; greatness: grandeur; glory.
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- noun The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
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- noun the state of being
illustrious
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- noun the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
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Examples
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My illustriousness is Nicole, and I’ve weary months checking discoverable all the sundry Acai Berry products.
The Silver Rabbit ZenMondo Wormser 2008
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If I do not succeed in getting Dionea this place (and all your Excellency's illustriousness and all my poor eloquence will be needed to counteract the sinister reports attaching to our poor little waif), it will be best to accept your suggestion of taking the girl into your household at Rome, since you are curious to see what you call our baleful beauty.
Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895
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Hungary hailed in me the man from whom she expects artistic illustriousness, after all the illustrious soldiers and politicians she has so plentifully produced.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Yes, Alfred Tennysons is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth Century.
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There were some prophets and patriarchs there that ours ain't a circumstance to, for rank and illustriousness and all that.
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Mark Twain 1872
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There were amiable people, otherwise conspicuously eligible, whom she must omit if she adhered to her plan, and there were some whom she despised that must be asked on account of the illustriousness of their pedigree.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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Yes, Alfred Tennyson's is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Yes, Alfred Tennyson's is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth Century.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Some men, conspicuous for the illustriousness of their ancestry as they think, gave themselves immoderate airs, and call themselves
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851
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My illustriousness is Nicole, and I’ve wearied months checking elsewhere all the miscellaneous Acai Berry products.
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