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English
Noun
pre-eminence (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of preeminence
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 347–348: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.
1962 August, "Mercury", “The fastest trains on the Continent, 1962: II—Western Germany”, in Modern Railways, page 125: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 [...].
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