super-eminent
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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
No one will ever dispute Nelson's cool, determined presence of mind, in the midst of danger and the greatest difficulties; he possessed this admirable quality in a super-eminent degree.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt
The Gospel relates one little circumstance which amply suffices to demonstrate Mary's super-eminent holiness of life, and to exhibit her as a beautiful pattern to those who are called to rule a household.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
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
