Personage vs Eminence - What's the difference?
personage | eminence | Related terms |
A famous or important person.
* 1872 , , The Poet at the Breakfast-Table ,
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
Personage is a related term of eminence.
As nouns the difference between personage and eminence
is that personage is a famous or important person while eminence is importance, notoriety.personage
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(en noun)page 230:
- I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage , I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
Usage notes
* In modern use, the noun personage is typically used with a partially redundant adjective, such as "notable" or "great"; as such, it may fairly be said to mean simply "person".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 [...].
