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

The University of Prague responded, May 23, with a public declaration, certifying to the unblemished orthodoxy and supereminent merits of Huss.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

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

She was as supereminent in beauty as she was in art: and well became, and deserved, her name of Angela.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm