supereminent
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French supereminent, and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin supereminens, adjectival use of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin superēminēre (corresponding to super- + eminent).
Pronunciation
Adjective
supereminent (comparative more supereminent, superlative most supereminent)
- Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding; supremely remarkable. [from 16th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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.
Synonyms
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) superēminent
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