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

As much as he is in this respect supereminent, so much greater the degree of his guilt.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

His heart thrilled with sympathetic anguish for posterity, which would be certain to stand hopelessly perplexed before so many contradictory signatures of one supereminent name.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The contrast between this supereminent brilliancy and the sullen obscurity of the subterranean river made the latter seem more than ever like Styx or Acheron.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)