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supereminency |
1 definition found 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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