supereminent
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Etymology
Origin of supereminent
1545–55; < Latin superēminent- (stem of superēminēns ), present participle of supereminēre to stand out. See super-, eminent
Example Sentences
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Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had the President chosen this supereminent publicist, from whose pursed lips come editorial pearls, to confide an exegesis of the historic "do not choose" statement?
From Time Magazine Archive
His range of ideas is not extraordinary; but vision, imagination, and the passion which makes the imaginative power its instrument, were his in a supereminent degree.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
Yet it has not that all-embracing and supereminent importance which some, even of those who fight against it, are accustomed to believe.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
This is natural, but not altogether reasonable: symmetry cannot be found in the commonest human being on our globe, much less in those who rise supereminent.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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