The corpus record — Latin

eminentia

eminentia · f

a standing out

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ēmĭnentĭa — Lewis & Short

ēmĭnentĭa, ae, f.eminens,

I a standing out, projecting; concr., a prominence, protuberance.

I Lit., Cic. N. D. 1, 38, § 174 (with soliditas); App. Flor. no. 18, p. 359; and in plur., Plin. 37, 10, 63, § 174. —Hence, in painting, the prominent, i. e. light parts, Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 20 (opp. umbrae). —

II Trop., excellence: quaedam formarum, Gell. 5, 11, 9: senectutis suae, Vulg. 2 Macc. 6, 19.—Hence, per eminentiam, i. q. kat' e)coxh/n, preëminently, par excellence, Ulp. Fragm. 11, 3: reperiet, eminentiam cujusque operis artissimis temporum claustris circumdatam, the highest ability in an art, Vell. 1, 17, 4.

In the wild

eminentiae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.3.11
eminentiam Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.105
eminentias Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.21
eminentiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.11

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