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Noun: eminence  emununs
  1. High status importance owing to marked superiority
    "a scholar of great eminence"
    - distinction, preeminence, note
     
  2. A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
    - tuberosity, tubercle

Derived forms: eminences

See also: eminent

Type of: appendage, high status, outgrowth, process

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