Dictionary entry

Supereminence

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Su′per‐em″i‐nence (?), Su′per‐em″i‐nen‐cy (?), } n. [L. supereminentia.] The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman. Ayliffe.

He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence. Prof. Wilson.