Adjective : an illustrious leader. ,many illustrious achievements. From Dictionary.com.
My illustriousness is Nicole, and I’ve weary months checking discoverable all the sundry Acai Berry products. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Rabbit] Reference
Yes, Alfred Tennyson's is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Some men, conspicuous for the illustriousness of their ancestry as they think, gave themselves immoderate airs, and call themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference
Yes, Alfred Tennyson's is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth Century. From Wordnik.com. [November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference
Yes, Alfred Tennysons is a superb character, and will help give illustriousness, through the long roll of time, to our Nineteenth Century. From Wordnik.com. [A Word about Tennyson. November Boughs] Reference
Hungary hailed in me the man from whom she expects artistic illustriousness, after all the illustrious soldiers and politicians she has so plentifully produced. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hauntings] Reference
What I meant to convey was my possible over-anxiety, occasioned by the illustriousness of the patient.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
My illustriousness is Nicole, and I’ve wearied months checking elsewhere all the miscellaneous Acai Berry products. From Wordnik.com. [TWQ: Five Ways To Escape A Zombie Invasion] Reference
Will men remember your illustriousness, 420. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Merlin: II] Reference
(see: untitled (to Helga and Carlo, with respect and affection), which was part of his "barriers," and nominal three (to William of Ockham) philosopher of Razor illustriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Flavorpill New York Events] Reference
But so long as a great name is not extinct it keeps in the full light of day those men and women who bear it; and there can be no doubt that, to a certain extent, the interest which the illustriousness of these families gave them in my eyes lay in the fact that one can, starting from to-day, follow their ascending course, step by step, to a point far beyond the fourteenth century, recover the diaries and correspondence of all the forebears of M. de Charlus, of the Prince d’Agrigente, of the Princesse de Parme, in a past in which an impenetrable night would cloak the origins of a middle-class family, and in which we make out, in the luminous backward projection of a name, the origin and persistence of certain nervous characteristics, certain vices, the disorders of one or another Guermantes. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
Nevertheless I would have you to know that I sought not, either by art or by fraud, to impose any stain upon the honour and illustriousness of your blood in the person of Sophronia, and that, albeit I took her secretly to wife, I came not as a ravisher to rob her of her maidenhead nor sought, after the manner of an enemy, whilst shunning your alliance, to have her otherwise than honourably; but, being ardently enkindled by her lovesome beauty and by her worth and knowing that, had I sought her with that ordinance which you will maybe say I should have used, I should not (she being much beloved of you) have had her, for fear lest I should carry her off to Rome, I used the occult means that may now be discovered to you and caused Gisippus, in my person, consent unto that which he himself was not disposed to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
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