What's the difference between greatness and illustriousness?
Greatness
Definition:
(n.) The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.
(n.) Pride; haughtiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(5) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(6) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(7) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(8) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(9) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(10) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(11) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) It’s great to observe the beach from that perspective.
(14) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
(15) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(16) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(17) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(18) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
(19) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(20) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
Illustriousness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) As illustrious as some of the names are on the list below, Unions work democratically, by majority vote.
(2) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(3) It has this very illustrious record of people who attended but didn't graduate, including Anne Hathaway, Jackie Onassis and Jane Fonda.
(4) The effects of 5 pregnane compounds isolated from the rhizomes of Mandevilla illustris were examined against bradykinin (BK), Lysyl-bradykinin (L-BK), acetylcholine (ACh) and oxytocin (Ot)-induced contractions in the isolated uteri of the rat.
(5) Instead, Conservative ministers want to tell new migrants that Britain is "historically" a Christian country with a "long and illustrious history".
(6) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
(7) In this context it is easy to see why Fomenko is seen by many as a conservative coach – very similar, in fact, to his illustrious mentor Valeriy Lobanovskiy.
(8) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(9) While Horatio is one of an increasing number of children born using a sibling as a sperm donor, there is a good chance that none so far shares his illustrious name.
(10) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(11) The Scot Craig Ferguson recently completed a long and illustrious stint on CBS’s The Late Late Show , while Birmingham-born John Oliver’s regular appearances on The Daily Show have earned him his own HBO slot hosting Last Week Tonight and Londoner James Corden has just boosted ratings at the wheel of The Late Late Show .
(12) Brentford had dominated their more illustrious neighbours but it looked as though the goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli’s heroics and Hugo Rodallega’s eye for goal would leave them empty-handed.
(13) The lack of profit has not deterred a string of illustrious backers.
(14) Google’s illustrious founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sagely stated that “since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious”.
(15) Perhaps, those who had an illustrious career as footballers visualise the future more clearly but it wasn’t my case.
(16) Just as that penalty incident happened by the way, my illustrious editor stopped fanning himself to tweet: Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Note for @timewarnercable : TV picture-in-picture box too central to watch #RSLvLA AND #PORvSEA #firstworldproblems @KidWeil @Paolo_Bandini November 8, 2013 4.58am GMT 34 mins More Portland pressure (must get keyboard macro for that phrase), but finally Seattle get another look at goal as Demspey touches the ball to Eddie Johnson, whose shot is deflected just over for a corner.
(17) Four of the style business's most illustrious names had become involved and at least one fashion journalist was referring to it as "trousergate".
(18) There was a foul on our player in the build up to the goal.” Wright-Phillips clearly revels in ruffling illustrious feathers – he has now scored in each of the three Hudson River derby fixtures and his 10 th of the season ensured Kreis’ side were always chasing the game.
(19) It is said that Andreotti, when watching it, momentarily lost his temper, then admitted that the film was aesthetically remarkable, but that the suggestion that he was somehow responsible for many of the "illustrious corpses" of the First Republic was ludicrous – a fair reaction.
(20) Among the members of its staff have been some of the first and most illustrious ophthalmologists--those whose discoveries, teachings and writings have contributed to the foundation and development of ophthalmology.