supereminent
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- supereminence noun
- supereminently adverb
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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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 he is the chief of poets, we infer that the faculty in which he is supereminent must be the greatest of poetic endowments.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
No doubt supereminent talents will sooner or later make themselves felt under almost any circumstances; but the position described assuredly offers no peculiar advantages for the furtherance of that end.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
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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