What is "pre-eminent"

Usage examples of "pre-eminent".

And in that skyey distance, pre-eminent beyond range on range of ice-robed mountains, I beheld two peaks throned for ever between firm land and heaven in unearthly loveliness: the spires and airy ridges of Koshtra Pivrarcha, and the wild precipices that soar upward from the abysses to the queenly silent snowdome of Koshtra Belorn.

Germany which had given the world a Duerer and a Cranach had not been pre-eminent in the fine arts in modern times, though German expressionism in painting and the Munich Bauhaus architecture were interesting and original movements and German artists had participated in all the twentieth-century evolutions and eruptions represented by impressionism, cubism and Dadaism.

Is it probable that that great race, pre-eminent as a founder of colonies, could have visited those islands within the Historical Period, and have left them unpeopled, as they were when discovered by the Portuguese?

Among the poets of the Augustan age Virgil and Horace stand forth pre-eminent.

The pattern of their striving was the career of the historical Buddha as a bodhisattva in his numerous previous lives: in each was performed some act of pre-eminent charity and self-sacrifice by which merit was accumulated and the entitlement to full Enlightenment was brought nearer.

The Steam-Engine is the pre-eminent god of the nineteenth century, whose idolaters are everywhere, and those, who wield its tremendous power securely account themselves gods, everywhere in the civilized world.

In ten years the number of Spartiates will halve again - how then will Sparta remain pre-eminent?

Taking him all round, the German as a trencherman stands pre-eminent among the nations of the earth.

In a kind of despair, we are apt to run over in our minds empires and pre-eminent civilizations that have existed, and then to doubt whether life in this world is intended to be anything more than a series of experiments.

Among the powerful knights of the eighteen senior Centuries and their less pre-eminent junior colleagues, however, the rumors acted abrasively.

My readers may be aware that I am not inclined to make mental pleasure pre-eminent and all sufficing.

Even after the most casual perusal, I could well believe Simon's boast that the Llwyddi were the pre-eminent clan in the land.

The reader will imagine that in the present instance Mliss and Clytie were pre-eminent, and divided public attention.

But if very absurdity compels even these theologists themselves to shrink from this, it remains that they call that genius god by special and pre-eminent distinction, whom they call the soul of the world, and therefore Jupiter.

Castalia rears pre-eminent musicians and art historians, philologists, mathematicians, and other scholars.