preëminence

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English

Noun

preëminence

  1. Rare spelling of preeminence.
    • 1879, “Lake Lucerne”, in “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, , page 387:
      When the minister and his wife entered their new home, a great assembly of both parties gathered, and all the ladies struggled for preëminence in the delicious cates and viands they brought.