supereminently

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English supereminent Middle English -ly English -ly English supereminently From supereminent + -ly.

1. In a supereminent manner; to a supreme degree.

   “He begins his letter under the same sensations he would have, if he were to accost her in person, only with this difference,—that he may take as much time as he pleases, for consideration, and need not write a single word that he has not well weighed and pondered beforehand, much less a sentence that he does not think supereminently clever.”

   “A perfect list of its deans, from their first establishment by Edward III, to the time of its surrender by the last; and an account of the benefactions to it when a chapel, from incontrovertible evidence, one of its own records, which has never before been attempted, will also be found here inserted. Few buildings, whether its internal beauty, its original destination and use as a chapel, or its subsequent purpose of an House for the sitting of one branch of the legislature, be considered, can be better entitled than this to regard and attention; and as it was in itself a supereminently beautiful specimen of the Gothic style, it has been thought advisable to subjoin an enquiry into the origin of Gothic architecture also, on which, though a subject often undertaken, original materials before undiscovered have been used, and by a fair state of a variety of facts, it has been ascertained how little former opinions on that point are to be confided in; at the same time, as it is hoped, it will be found, on examination, to contain sufficient circumstances for deciding the question.”