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 had contemptuously referred to Conkling's "haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut."

From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell

This is natural, but not altogether reasonable: symmetry cannot be found in the commonest human being on our globe, much less in those who rise supereminent.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

The contrast between this supereminent brilliancy and the sullen obscurity of the subterranean river made the latter seem more than ever like Styx or Acheron.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)