hypereminent

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ eminent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˈɛmɪnənt/

Adjective

hypereminent (comparative more hypereminent, superlative most hypereminent)

  1. (rare) Extraordinarily eminent; supereminent.
    • 1917, Kansas Medical Society, The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society 1917-08: Volume 17 Issue 8, Kansas Medical Society, page 219:
      The hypereminent gentleman who pampers his vanity by ignoring collections is not a good citizen in the profession.
    • 1927, Societé Kosmoglott, Kosmoglott - Cosmoglotta n039 (Mar-Apr 1927), page 14:
      Ultre to Francia nequande ha esset li lande de hypereminent singulos. Por to ja desde antiqui it ha esset disposit tro social.
    • 2009, John D. Caputo, Gianni Vattimo, After the Death of God, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
      I am not satisfied by the death of God announced by Nietzsche, who was too unguardedly in love in with power and hierarchy and struggle, nor even with the beautiful mystical death of God in apophatic, which is trying to affirm the still higher being of a hypereminent hyperousios.