supereminent

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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

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

Michelangelo's work shows none of these shortcomings; it is always technically faultness, instinct with passion, supereminent in force.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

His range of ideas is not extraordinary; but vision, imagination, and the passion which makes the imaginative power its instrument, were his in a supereminent degree.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

Heroic kingship depended partly on divinely given prerogative, and partly on the possession of supereminent strength, courage, and wisdom.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir