EMINENCE Copy link • EMINENCEexcelsitas: amplitudo: sublimitas (litterally and figuratively): clivus: collis: tumulus [SYN. in HILL]. High rank, pre-eminence, praestantia: excellentia, etc. To attain to great eminence, summam gloriam consequi :. laudem sibi parere or colligere, etc. To have reached very great eminence, in summo esse fastigio (Nep.). By way of eminence (“par excellence”), per or propter excellentiam: praecipue (per eminentiam, in Ulp.).