supereminence

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Even before the shooting, three members of his staff�Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker, and Deaver�had achieved a kind of supereminence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Welles took it handsomely, as do most of McCarthy's targets, who are invariably delighted to be ribbed by such a supereminence.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the isolated button of Celestial supereminence, it is too bad!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various

While I have breath in me, I will maintain the supereminence of arithmetic.

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene

But his was not the nature of Epaminondas, to doff his natural supereminence and sweep the streets.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin