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单词 preeminently
释义

preeminently

See also: preëminently and pre-eminently

English

Etymology

preeminent + -ly.

Adverb

preeminently (comparative more preeminently, superlative most preeminently)

  1. In a preeminent manner.
    • 1850, Thomas De Quincey, “Shakspeare”, in Biographical Essays, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 2720740, page 4:
      [T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to [William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful; []

Alternative forms

  • pre-eminently
  • preëminently (obsolete)
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