supereminent
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /suːpəɹˈɛmɪnənt/
supereminent
- Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding; supremely remarkable. [from 16th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
- so far was beauty adored amongst them, that no man was thought fit to reign that was not in all parts complete and supereminent.
- 1888, Henry James, The Modern Warning.
- The conservatives had come into power just after his marriage, and he had held honourable though not supereminent office.
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