Prestige
[pre'stiː(d)ʒ] or [prɛ'stidʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; 'he wanted to achieve power and prestige'.
Typist: Perry--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) Delusion; illusion; trick.
(v.) Weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation.
Checker: Pamela
Definition
n. influence arising from past conduct or from reputation.
Inputed by Cyrus
Examples
- I don't care for prestige or high pay. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She destroyed her prestige by disregarding her own teaching of righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was never ostracized--his prestige with the quieter citizens saved him from that; but he was attacked with increasing boldness and steadfastness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have tried to blot out human prestige, to minimize the influence of personality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Turkish conquests and the expansion of the known world robbed the Roman Empire of its former prestige of universality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They did not sit down to be besieged while the mutineers organized and gathered prestige; that would have lost them India for ever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Forrest was in his front, but with neither his old-time army nor his old-time prestige. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And right there a lasting blow was given to the prestige of the Edison patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We will not follow the fluctuations of the power and prestige of the English Parliament through the time of the Tudor monarchs (_i. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When he speaks, it is with a prestige that dumbs questioning and makes obedience a habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such things as this are done successfully only when the prestige and tradition and learning of the priestly order has sunken to a very low level. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had stripped the magical prestige from the absolutist monarchy in France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A certain seclusion, a certain aloofness, would add greatly to the prestige of the god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In such cases, evidence itself can hardly escape being influenced by the prestige of authority. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Otis