supereminent

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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

He beholds out of the exaled and supereminent tower of eternity, all the successions and changes of the creatures; and there is no succession, no mutation in his knowledge, as in ours.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

They had all to consult him; in every strait and conflict he had to be appealed to, and came in at the last as the man of supereminent composure, comprehensiveness, and breadth of brow.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David

She was as supereminent in beauty as she was in art: and well became, and deserved, her name of Angela.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm