superˈeminency Now rare or Obs.
[Formed as prec.: see -ency.]
= prec.
In quot. 1866–7 with possessive as a fictitious title of rank.
| 1585–7 T. Rogers 39 Art. xxxvi. (1625) 197 The degrees of Ecclesiasticall supereminencie. 1631 Gouge God's Arrows iii. §62. 301 Records..which by an excellency and super⁓eminency [cf. eminence 8 c] are called Scriptures. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 191 The supereminency of the hill. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Tracts i. (1684) 31 A kind of Sceptre in their hands, denoting their supereminencies. 1691 Norris Pract. Disc. 223 The ὑπεροχὴ or supereminency of the Divine Nature. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 95 The Archbishop of Canterbury, as he is Primate over all England..has a Super-eminency..over the Archbishop of York. 1866–7 Baring-Gould Cur. Myths Mid. Ages, Prester John (1894) 45 The palace in which our Supereminency [sc. Prester John] resides. |