Pre-eminence

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of preeminence. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "And being always with her, and always talking confidentially, and his feelings exactly in that favourable state which a recent disappointment gives, those soft light eyes could not be very long in obtaining the pre-eminence."

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excellence

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"Claudius, seeing a mighty man before him, saw things looked serious and understood that here he had not quite the same pre-eminence as at Rome, where no one was his equal."

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