supereminent
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Origin of supereminent
1545–55; < Latin superēminent- (stem of superēminēns ), present participle of supereminēre to stand out. See super-, eminent
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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
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
As much as he is in this respect supereminent, so much greater the degree of his guilt.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
He beholds out of the exaled and supereminent tower of eternity, all the successions and changes of the creatures; and there is no succession, no mutation in his knowledge, as in ours.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
All the family were quick at it, but his astounding memory made him supereminent.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir
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