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单词 supereminent
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Definition of supereminent in English:

supereminent

adjective ˌsuːpərˈɛmɪnəntˌsupərˈɛmənənt
  • old-fashioned term for pre-eminent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In two grand, characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger.
    • This, I think, is what he means when he writes as follows:… if the universe is eminently animate and rational, then either it is God, or there are two eminent beings, God and Universe, and a third supereminent entity, which is the total reality of God-and-universe.
    • A court of record is that where the acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled in parchment for a perpetual memorial and testimony: which rolls are called the records of the court, and are of such high and supereminent authority, that their truth is not to be called in question.
    • He was born supereminent at a distance, bearing a name renowned in far off region.
    • Counsel emphasised that the exercise of the supereminent jurisdiction of the Court of Session must be confined to bodies in Scotland, for it had no power to enforce its decisions against bodies furth of Scotland.

Derivatives

  • supereminence

  • noun ˌsuːpərˈɛmɪnənsˌsupərˈɛmənəns
    • Whence he is said to have supereminence over all other superiors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This could best be effected if the members of the administration realised their equality with the citizens, with the only supereminence of justice.
      • Let's leave supereminence to the supereminent - you and I deserve no such glorious name, we'd be happy serving in the King's kitchen as go-fors or woodcarriers, and if he chooses to include us in his cabinet that's a matter for him.
      • Judas does not become a critic, he does not even become a Pharisee; he becomes a supereminent traitor, just because of the supereminence of the Person he once adored.
      • Several gentlemen's sons, who had shown an inclination to engage in a seafaring life, were put under my care, for the purpose of being early initiated into the knowledge of a profession which requires length of experience, rather than supereminence of genius.
  • supereminently

  • adverb
    • It is not of the same importance to the public that advocates should be supereminently skilful: their occupation is not to seek out what is agreeable to justice, but what agrees with the interest of the party to which chance has engaged them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is true of every religion, but supereminently so of the religion of love.
      • The valley through which the Guadalquivir winds its course, is supereminently fertile, and from it the French armies derive the greatest part of their forage and provisions.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin supereminent- 'rising above', from the verb supereminere 'rise above' (see super-, eminent).

 
 

Definition of supereminent in US English:

supereminent

adjectiveˌsupərˈɛmənəntˌso͞opərˈemənənt
  • chiefly dated term for preeminent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In two grand, characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger.
    • A court of record is that where the acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled in parchment for a perpetual memorial and testimony: which rolls are called the records of the court, and are of such high and supereminent authority, that their truth is not to be called in question.
    • Counsel emphasised that the exercise of the supereminent jurisdiction of the Court of Session must be confined to bodies in Scotland, for it had no power to enforce its decisions against bodies furth of Scotland.
    • He was born supereminent at a distance, bearing a name renowned in far off region.
    • This, I think, is what he means when he writes as follows:… if the universe is eminently animate and rational, then either it is God, or there are two eminent beings, God and Universe, and a third supereminent entity, which is the total reality of God-and-universe.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin supereminent- ‘rising above’, from the verb supereminere ‘rise above’ (see super-, eminent).

 
 
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