super-eminent
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It is the super-eminent glory of English that it counts twice in the reckoning.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
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 Bennett, Arnold
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 Hunt, Henry
While there, however, he resolved to distinguish the close of his career by the construction of some violins of super-eminent beauty and quality.
From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)
Self-delusion, for such it was, so perfect and complete, who could conceive—hypocrisy so super-eminent, who could conjecture!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
