supremely, adv.
(s(j)uːˈpriːmlɪ)
[f. supreme a. + -ly2.]
1. In a supreme degree, to a supreme extent.
| 1615 Chapman Odyss. xxiv. 24 The supremely strenuous Of all the Greeke hoast. 1696 Tate & Brady Ps. c. iv, For He's the Lord, supreamly good. 1718 Prior Solomon i. 53 The fair Cedar, on the craggy Brow Of Lebanon nodding supremely tall. 1726 Pope Odyss. xxiii. 62 How blest this happy hour, should he appear, Dear to us all, to me supremely dear! 1781 Cowper Ep. Lady Austen 34 The hand of the Supremely Wise. 1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 123 That young person..was supremely jealous of every new pet her mistress took a fancy to. 1870 Lowell Among my Books Ser. i. (1873) 169 More supremely incapable [of this] than any other man who ever wrote English. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi, Those [moments]..dwelt forever in the memory of both as supremely blissful. |
† 2. By or with supreme authority or power. rare.
| 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 65 All suits are there supreamly decided. 1734 tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. ii. iii. 301 The senate decided supremely, and there lay no appeal from it. |
So suˈpremeness, the quality of being supreme; supreme degree.
| 1843 Poe Premature Burial Wks. 1864 I. 331 The supremeness of bodily and of mental distress. 1896 A. Whyte Bible Char. x. I. 112 An amazing elevation, detachment, supremeness, and sweetness of soul. |