superiority

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This, with her clear muslins and heavy black silk stockings, her narrow unornamented slippers, represented the perfection of niceness There were others than Pansy, however, who commented on what they called her superiority--the young men who appeared in the evening.

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  1. The state or character of being superior, in any sense. These two streets doe seem to contend for the superiority, but the first is the fairest. Coryat, Crudities, I. 216. “He read, Sir,” rejoined Pott … with a smile of intellectual superiority, “he read for metaphysics under the letter M, and for China under the letter C; and combined his information [for Chinese metaphysics], Sir!” Dickens, Pickwick, 1.
  2. In Scots law, the right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal. (See superior, 3.) The superiority of all the lands in the kingdom was originally in the sovereign. Synonyms Preference, etc. (see priority); predominancy, ascendancy, advantage, preponderance, excellence, nobility.

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  • There was an indefinable feeling of being in the presence of superiority, which is irritating to a man of intellect. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • Besides, my success at Aubusson had not altered my decided opinion about conjuring, that a man who wishes to be thought capable of performing incomprehensible things should have attained an age which leaves it to be supposed that his superiority is the result of lengthened study. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • Or your sense of muslim superiority, which is prevalent in the Arab culture. —  The Wide Awakes
  • In some ways it's clear that Israel cannot be invaded successfully, because of its air superiority which is only growing as years go by. —  Bookslut
  • There should be therefore an earnest and prayerful endeavor upon the part of the young to cherish towards their parents that loving sense of their superiority which is implied in the word Honor. —  Life and Conduct
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  1. from Old French superiorite, French supériorité = Spanish superioridad = Portuguese superioridade = Italian superiorità, from Middle Latin superiorita(t-)s, from Latin superior, superior: see superior.
 

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