EMINENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eminently mean? 

• EMINENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb EMINENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an eminent manner

  Familiarity information: EMINENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMINENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an eminent manner

Context example:

two subjects on which he was eminently qualified to make an original contribution

Pertainym:

eminent (standing above others in quality or position)

 Context examples 

Watson, you are a British jury, and I never met a man who was more eminently fitted to represent one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am well disposed towards him, however, and I consider him eminently adapted for the profession which he is about to adopt.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Pretty!” I sniffed. “I failed to mark anything pre-eminently pretty about those foamy-mouthed beasts that raced me.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So far, he said, our night has been eminently successful.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My disposition is, if I may say so, eminently practical.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Clerval! Beloved friend! Even now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Iss!" said Demi the perjured, blissfully sucking his sugar, and regarding his first attempt as eminently successful.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If they left him alone, he left them alone—a state of affairs that they found, after a few encounters, to be pre-eminently desirable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was pre-eminently unbeautiful.

(White Fang, by Jack London)