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English
Adverb
pre-eminently (comparative more pre-eminently, superlative most pre-eminently)
- Alternative spelling of preeminently.
1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: , volume II, London: T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 115:Will not you engage to attend with your eyes steadily fixed on him the whole time—as I shall do—not to lose a word; or only looking off just to note down any sentence pre-eminently beautiful?