super-eminent

She was also a wonderfully generous person: in her later years, even though super-eminent and rather old, she quickly acceded to my sister's request to attend her and her fellow-undergraduates 'end of year meeting, to talk to them abouther life in science.

Science Maxine 2009

She was also a wonderfully generous person: in her later years, even though super-eminent and rather old, she quickly acceded to my sister's request to attend her and her fellow-undergraduates 'end of year meeting, to talk to them abouther life in science.

May 2008 Maxine 2008

She was also a wonderfully generous person: in her later years, even though super-eminent and rather old, she quickly acceded to my sister's request to attend her and her fellow-undergraduates 'end of year meeting, to talk to them abouther life in science.

Design on X-ray structures Maxine 2008

She was also a wonderfully generous person: in her later years, even though super-eminent and rather old, she quickly acceded to my sister's request to attend her and her fellow-undergraduates 'end of year meeting, to talk to them abouther life in science.

Design on X-ray structures Maxine 2008

When scorn did not inspire his mirth, when it was genuine gaiety that painted his features with a joyous expression, his beauty became super-eminent, divine.

The Last Man 2003

On the other hand, they who have not obeyed shall, with justice, be not found in possession of the good, and shall receive condign punishment: for God did kindly bestow on them what was good; but they themselves did not diligently keep it, nor deem it something precious, but poured contempt upon His super-eminent goodness.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

His wisdom [is shown] in His having made created things parts of one harmonious and consistent whole; and those things which, through His super-eminent kindness, receive growth and a long period of existence, do reflect the glory of the uncreated One, of that God who bestows what is good ungrudgingly.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

The same thing is declared by the expression "shall be subject," which here signifies nothing more than the laying aside of the super-eminent power which Christ had received from the Father, and which he had, as the Father's Vicegerent, administered at the pleasure of his own will:

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

Self-delusion, for such it was, so perfect and complete, who could conceive -- hypocrisy so super-eminent, who could conjecture!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

He had probably established some one super-eminent article of food as a high "ideal" to which to refer all other kinds of edibles -- perhaps an ortolan pie; and the further removed from this imaginary point of perfection any dish appeared, the more vulgar and commonplace it became; and taking it for granted, that as far as human gradations are concerned, the loftiest aristocracy corresponded with the ortolan pie, it is evident that Mr

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various