What does pre-eminently mean?

pre-eminently

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English

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"Will not you engage to attend with your eyes steadily fixed on him the whole time—as I shall do—not to lose a word; or only looking off just to note down any sentence pre-eminently beautiful?"

more pre-eminently (comparative) most pre-eminently (superlative)

preeminently

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