- a variation of preeminence.
pre-eminence
Example Sentences
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Rabbi Yehudah, surnamed the Holy, the editor of the Mishnah, is the personage here and elsewhere spoken of as the Rabbi by pre eminence.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
"He is the beginning, the first born from among the dead, that among all he might have the pre eminence."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
This pre eminence of bishops is that Dagon, which once already fell before the ark of God in this land, and no band of iron shall be able to hold him up again.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John
The seat of pre eminence among them was filled by a person who possessed in a very uncommon degree these two valuable qualities, so happily conducive to medical utility and medical distinction.
From The Eulogies of Howard by Hayley, William
The author of the Book of Ecclesiastes, however, bluntly declares that "all have one breath, and all go to one place, so that a man hath no pre eminence above a beast."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
