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

He has overthrown, he has mortified me, where I alone should have stood supreme and supereminent.

From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore

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

Much rather, the recognition of the compensating and separable way in which faculties are dealt, would lead us to look from time to time, for children of the Muse gifted for supereminent Translators.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various