OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 27700

illustrious

/ɪˈlʌs.tɹɪ.əs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ilustre • preclaro • ínclito
Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known.
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 o…
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!
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