notability
[noh-tuh-bil-i-tee]
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Origin of notability
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Related Words for notability
weight, influence, rank, renown, esteem, fame, standing, prepotency, preeminence, mark, note, significance, repute, luster, power, greatness, authority, prestige, loftiness, dignityExamples from the Web for notability
Historical Examples of notability
All that went on they had their share in, and a kind of acquaintance with every notability.
Royal EdinburghMargaret Oliphant
Mary has infected me with her notability, and I'm going to work mamma a footstool.
Wives and DaughtersElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
He recognized, in those lines of opposing counsel, an array of notability.
The TemperingCharles Neville Buck
But when one marks its date, its notability is enhanced impressively.
Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;Clark S. Beardslee
He came of good family of county rank, and his personal character raised him to the eminence of a notability in Staffordshire.
The Annals of WillenhallFrederick William Hackwood
notability
- the state or quality of being notable
- a distinguished person; notable
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Word Origin and History for notability
late 14c., from Old French notabilite, from Medieval Latin *notabilitatem (nominative *notabilitas), from Latin notabilis (see notable).
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