Grandeur vs Eminence - What's the difference?
grandeur | eminence | Synonyms |
The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
Nobility.
(archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
someone of high rank, reputation or social station
the quality or state of being eminent
prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
(anatomy) a protuberance
Grandeur is a synonym of eminence.
As nouns the difference between grandeur and eminence
is that grandeur is the state of being grand or splendid; magnificence while eminence is importance, notoriety.grandeur
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* ----eminence
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(en noun)- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].