单词 | supereminently |
释义 | supereminentlyadv. Now rare. In a supereminent manner, to a supereminent degree; above all; supremely, pre-eminently. ΘΚΠ 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 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. B4v The Kingdome of Spaine, which they call so super-eminently Catholicke. 1617 Lady Englefield Let. in H. Slingsby Diary 297 Christ as man receaved this power supereminently of God. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. ii. 5 Other attributes we give unto God, which signifie perfections supereminently. 1721 R. Keith tr. Thomas à Kempis Valley of Lilies xxvi, in tr. Thomas à Kempis Select Pieces II. 78 That..God may be..by thee beloved, blessed, praised, and supereminently exalted to all Eternity. 1779 Monthly Rev. Aug. 119 The precepts, both moral and religious, with which his poem supereminently abounds. 1825 W. Scott Talisman x, in Tales Crusaders III. 252 From that commanding height the banner of England was supereminently displayed. 1893 J. A. Symonds Life Michelangelo I. v. 206 A style so supereminently noble and so astoundingly original as Michelangelo's. 1929 Times 3 June 9/2 There must be settlement of outstanding disputes,..notably and supereminently that of sea power. 1997 Birmingham (Alabama) News (Nexis) 9 Nov. f6 Jean Marie Cousset uses animal heads combined with human bodies in a supereminently surreal manner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1610 |
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