Crossword-Solution: EMINENCES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eminences | pl. | of Eminency |
We have 5 clues for the answer “EMINENCES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cardinals and the like | 1 answer |
| Popes and the like | 1 answer |
| ___ grises (confidential agents) | 1 answer |
| Lofty places? | 2 answers |
| Distinctions | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EMINENCES (5)
Valentine’s—that bishop of blessed memory to youthful lovers—and the sun shone low under the rim of a thick hard cloud, decorating the eminences of the landscape with crowns of orange fire.
The purpling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light.
The eminences which appear in the neighbourhood are not properly high grounds, but are rather the sides of this hollow.
The main army of the Imperialists was posted on the steep heights between the Biber and the Rednitz, called the Old Fortress and Altenberg; while the camp itself, commanded by these eminences, spread out immeasurably along the plain.
And nothing doth extinguish envy more, than for a great person to preserve all other inferior officers, in their full lights and pre-eminences of their places.
Quotes with EMINENCES (2)
We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it cannot be attributed to our want of capacity to fill them, but to that violence with which the Men support their unjust intrusion into our places. (...) If then we set custom and prejudice aside, where wou'd the oddity be to see us dictating sciences from a university chair; since to name but one of a thousand, that foreign young lady, whose extraordinary meri…
Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a question of who got to them first, Your Eminences: 'Whether it's us, whether it's the opposition, or whether it's the bloody missionaries.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1987–2025).