supereminentia

sŭpĕrēmĭnentĭa, ae, f. [super-emineo],

• supereminence (late Lat.): dei, Aug. Serm. 40; id. Gest. Pelag. 30, 55; Ambros. Parad. 2, 8: laudis, Hilar. Trin. 11, 4.

super-ēminentia, ae, f. (superemineo), die Hervorragung, übtr., vis ac supereminentia numerorum, Claud. Mam. de stat. anim. 1, 25, 5: dei, Hoheit, Augustin. serm. 341, 9. Ambros. de parad. 2. § 8.

supereminentia [LL] 1 superior height. nostri ‥ tela molestius a tanta ~ia navis emissa ferebant Itin. Ric. II 42; metaphorice ‥ dicitur gradus propter ~iam unius ad alterum Gilb. III 162v. 1. 2 superior rank or position, pre-eminence. bonus ordo, ~ia amoris G. Hoyland Serm. 219C; gloriam et ~iam militie secularis P. Blois Ep. 2. 7A; filium suum posuerat in medio duorum animalium [Maria], hodie collocatur a filio in ~iam angelorum Id. Serm. 33. 663B; si unus homo habuerit ~iam sciencie aut justicie, inconveniens fuisset si illud non cederet in commodum aliorum Fortescue NLN I 34. 3 (in list of words derived from eminere). inde supereminens ‥ et hec ~ia, -tie Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 191.

sŭpĕrēmĭnentĭa, æ, f. , grandeur suprême : Aug. Serm. 341, 9.