illustrious

Definitions

1. Outstanding, illustrious.
2. Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known.

Equivalents

Examples

“A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect⟳, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find⟳ in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own⟳ good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.”

“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh⟳, a most illustrious laugh⟳. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!”

“The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?”

“[Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run⟳ at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have⟳ been out of place⟳ from members of England's illustrious opposition.”

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