pre-eminence

A form of preeminence — The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant.

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Meanings

nounpre-eminence (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of preeminence.

    While the Deutsche Bundesbahn has not reattained the pre-eminence in European railway speed that the German railways enjoyed before the 1939-1945 war, speeds in that country are steadily moving upwards [...].

    1962 August, "Mercury", “The fastest trains on the Continent, 1962: II—Western Germany”, in Modern Railways, page 125
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    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.

    1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 347–348

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
excellence
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Chicago

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