Adjective
pre-eminent (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of preeminent
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy. Kofi Annan
We tread on unsure ground, theologically. The doctrines are still in the malleable state; what eventually evolves from them will owe its existence not to pre-eminent merit, but to the shrewdness of the compromises made by the factions. George Alec Effinger
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. Terry Pratchett
The manufactures of Iron are entitled to pre-eminent rank. Alexander Hamilton
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. Niall Ferguson