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.
Delusion; illusion; trick.
Noun
a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige"
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.
Prestige
The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.2.
Delusion; illusion; trick.
Usage Examples
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
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