super-eminent
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When scorn did not inspire his mirth, when it was genuine gaiety that painted his features with a joyous expression, his beauty became super-eminent, divine.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is the super-eminent glory of English that it counts twice in the reckoning.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
The people were there, proud of their king, proud of his magnificent appearance, but prouder of the super-eminent qualities that had marked the commencement of his reign.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
Alice was in all her best clothes, but it cannot be said that she looked the wife of a super-eminent painter.
From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett
Explain to me, O thou super-eminent in virtue, the nature of the game that is played on the eight times eight square board.
From Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird
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