What is rank?

Rank

Rank refers to the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc. of a person or object, including:

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Famous quotes containing the word rank:

    “Archbishop—A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “... his rank penetrated them as though it had been an odour.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)