Hypertext Webster Gateway: "supereminence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Supereminence \Su`per*em"i*nence\, Supereminency
\Su`per*em"i*nen*cy\, n. [L. supereminentia.]
The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished
eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or
Lord Chatham as a statesman. --Ayliffe.
He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his
own supereminence. --Prof.
Wilson.
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