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pre-eminently

Adverb

Meaning

to a preeminent degree; with superiority or distinction above others; in a preeminent manner

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Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian. Alexis de Tocqueville

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Ernst Mach

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently. Thomas Babington Macaulay

India is pre-eminently distinguished for the many traits of original grandeur of thought and of the wonderful remains of immediate knowledge. Friedrich Schlegel

It is pre-eminently among the ancient Hebrews that Prophecy is found, not as an accidental or temporary phenomenon, but continuously through many generations. Prophecy is, as it were, the hall-mark of the Hebrew national spirit. Ahad Ha'am

a wide variety of pre-eminently contemporary scenes Source: Internet

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