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
Much rather, the recognition of the compensating and separable way in which faculties are dealt, would lead us to look from time to time, for children of the Muse gifted for supereminent Translators.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
If Baby Carlos's performance in it be anything in proportion, he will be a supereminent sovereign!—
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Carlyle, Thomas
His heart thrilled with sympathetic anguish for posterity, which would be certain to stand hopelessly perplexed before so many contradictory signatures of one supereminent name.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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