super-eminent
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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
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 people were there, proud of their king, proud of his magnificent appearance, but prouder of the super-eminent qualities that had marked the commencement of his reign.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
It is the super-eminent glory of English that it counts twice in the reckoning.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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
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