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In this way did Rma attain the supereminent state of Siva, in which he sat sedate without uttering a word.
THE YOGA-VASISHTHA MAHARAMAYANA OF VALMIKI, VOL. 3 (OF 4) PART 2 (OF 2)VALMIKI
All the family were quick at it, but his astounding memory made him supereminent.
LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAYGEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN
It is this quality which has made the master-works of Chillingworth and Bentley supereminent.
GIBBONJAMES COTTER MORISON
Supereminent, sū-pėr-em′i-nent, adj. eminent in a superior degree: excellent beyond others.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUS
The quality of the love of procreating is known from its delight, which is supereminent and transcendent.
THE DELIGHTS OF WISDOM PERTAINING TO CONJUGIAL LOVEEMANUEL SWEDENBORG
For this group in especial perhaps—the irrepressible, the supereminent young persons—his best pen was ready.
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, VOLUME IIHENRY JAMES
He has overthrown, he has mortified me, where I alone should have stood supreme and supereminent.
GUY RIVERS: A TALE OF GEORGIAWILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
The confidence of Mr. Madison and his own supereminent qualities alone sustained him.
THE LIFE OF ALBERT GALLATINHENRY ADAMS
As he is the chief of poets, we infer that the faculty in which he is supereminent must be the greatest of poetic endowments.
SPECIAL METHOD IN THE READING OF COMPLETE ENGLISH CLASSICSCHARLES MCMURRY
What I shall urge in his favour is simply this: the man whom opposite parties unite in praising must have supereminent merit.
PAUL CLIFFORD, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

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