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

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

His range of ideas is not extraordinary; but vision, imagination, and the passion which makes the imaginative power its instrument, were his in a supereminent degree.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

Napoleon, notwithstanding his supereminent genius, made some extraordinary mistakes about warfare on the sea.

From Sea-Power and Other Studies by Bridge, Cyprian, Admiral Sir