preeminently

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English

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Etymology

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From preeminent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹiːˈɛmɪnəntli/

Adverb

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preeminently (comparative more preeminently, superlative most preeminently)

  1. In a preeminent manner.
    Synonyms: particularly, distinguishedly
    • 1850, Thomas De Quincey, “Shakspeare”, in Biographical Essays, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 4:
      [T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to [William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful; []