单词 | pre-eminently |
释义 | pre-eminentlyadv. To a pre-eminent extent; so as to be pre-eminent; outstandingly, supremely; especially, above all. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adverb] sovereignlyc1340 excellentlyc1400 by (an, way of) excellencec1450 transcendingly1528 exquisitely1535 precellently?1567 divinely1582 par excellence1584 pre-eminently1590 superlatively1596 surpassing1598 by (way of) eminency1608 superexcellently1615 by (way of) eminence1621 transcendently1623 surpassingly1658 exquisitively1660 par eminence1823 heavenlike1832 transcendentally1870 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adverb] highlyOE overalla1225 with the firstc1300 principally1340 principalc1390 in principala1393 chiefly14.. ratherestc1400 rathestc1400 primarily1587 kat' exochen1588 paravant1590 pre-eminently1590 primely1610 cardinally1631 transeminently1642 paramountly1798 par eminence1823 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > in the greatest degree or most > in or to the highest degree principallyc1390 speciallya1425 consummately1529 extremelya1533 out1555 pre-eminently1590 superlatively1596 supremely1597 supereminently1610 super-superlatively1632 ad extremum1640 highest1726 supernally1874 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 54 If moyst humour preheminentlie be placed. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. iii. 42 In more fulness of shame and confusion of face, then could have befell them possibly, had they never been so preheminently exalted. 1713 T. H. Form of Holy Scriptural Divinity xxvi. 151 The Elect shall be conformable to Christ; because as Christ is pre-eminently Priest and King, so he will make his Elect, both Priests..and also Spiritual Kings. 1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions I. 89 Labour and Ease He had already prov'd: But neither yet, præ-eminently, lov'd. 1747 D. Mallet Amyntor & Theodora ii. 190 From another's fate, Pre-eminently wretched, learn thy own. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 149 The argument of this pre-eminently learned Judge. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxix. 587 The region indicated is preeminently a cotton-field. 1910 Times 18 May 14/5 The albatross is pre-eminently the gliding soarer of the bird kingdom. 1939 Times 13 May 14/7 Hundreds of aeroplanes were lined up, including pre-eminently the German and Italian squadrons which came to the help of the hard-pressed Nationalists. 1969 G. Greene Coll. Ess. III. ii. 294 He had not been pre-eminently successful at Trinity College. 2004 D. Hopkins Dada & Surrealism v. 126 After all, fashion advertising is pre-eminently based on artifice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。