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

And here the supereminent power of Shakespeare, in displaying the manners, bent, and inclination of his characters, is pointed out to the reader's admiration.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

Yet it has not that all-embracing and supereminent importance which some, even of those who fight against it, are accustomed to believe.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

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