supereminently

English

Etymology

supereminent +‎ -ly

Adverb

supereminently (comparative more supereminently, superlative most supereminently)

1. In a supereminent manner; to a supreme degree.
   • 1731, E . V. Lucas, The World's Classics: William Cowper's Letters: A Selection‎^[1], R. & R. Clark, Limited, page 58:

     He begins his letter under the same sensations he would have, if he were to accost her in person, only with this difference,—that he may take as much time as he pleases, for consideration, and need not write a single word that he has not well weighed and pondered beforehand, much less a sentence that he does not think supereminently clever.

   • 1807, John Thomas Smith, Antiquities of Westminster‎^[2], J. Manson, J. T. Smith, R. Ryan T. Bensley, Bolt Court, pages 10-11:

     A perfect list of its deans, from their first establishment by Edward III, to the time of its surrender by the last; and an account of the benefactions to it when a chapel, from incontrovertible evidence, one of its own records, which has never before been attempted, will also be found here inserted. Few buildings, whether its internal beauty, its original destination and use as a chapel, or its subsequent purpose of an House for the sitting of one branch of the legislature, be considered, can be better entitled than this to regard and attention; and as it was in itself a supereminently beautiful specimen of the Gothic style, it has been thought advisable to subjoin an enquiry into the origin of Gothic architecture also, on which, though a subject often undertaken, original materials before undiscovered have been used, and by a fair state of a variety of facts, it has been ascertained how little former opinions on that point are to be confided in; at the same time, as it is hoped, it will be found, on examination, to contain sufficient circumstances for deciding the question.

   • 1811, The Freemason's Magazine and General Miscellany 1811-11: Volume 2, Issue 2‎^[3], Open Court Publishing Company, page 119:

     If you wish to please us, give us receipts for beautifying lotions; or give us some secrets that will make us cruel, irresistible, and killing. If you were as willing, Mr. Printer, to take advice as to give it, I could tell you what to do. Give us the fashions from Europe: give us fine elegant delightful drawings of all the new dresses—full dresses, undresses, promenade dresses, riding dresses, birth-day suits, and all that ’s fine, and grand, and noble, and exquisitely enchanting. Give us supereminently superb ingravings of caps, bonnets, hats, feathers, ribbons, combs, ladies’ heads, and other important things, and Je ne sais quois, which will be interesting to the beau monde in this new hemisphere of fashion.

   • 1817, Mathew Carey, The Olive Branch‎^[4], J. Foster, page 267:

     First, That the eastern states were supereminently commercial. Secondly, That the states south of the Susquehaijnah were wholly agricultural. Thirdly, I'hat there is a natural and inevitable hostility between commercial and agricultural states. Fourthly, That this hostility has uniformly pervaded the whole southern section of the union. And Fifthly, That all measures of congress were dictated by this hostility: and were actually intended to ruin the commercial, meaning the eastern states.

   • 1834, John Nichols, The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[5], London, page 351:

     I asked him how she received this piece of candour. ' Oh ! just as aU such candid avowals are received; she never forgave me for it. She endeavoured to prove to me 'au contraire,' the tendencies of both her novels were supereminently moral.