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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: eminence, distinction, preeminence, note]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 13th century the quality or state of being preeminent ; superiority

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Preeminence Pre*["e]m"i*nence, n. [F. pr['e]['e]minence, L. praeeminentia. See Pre["e]minent.] The quality or state of being pre["e]minent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, pre["e]minence in honor. The pre["e]minence of Christianity to any other religious scheme. --Addison. Painful pre["e]minence! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. --Pope. Beneath the forehead's walled pre["e]minence. --Lowell.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pre-em'-i-nens: Superiority, especially in noble or excellent qualities. The word stands for: (1) mothar, "what is over and above," "excellence"; "Man hath no preeminence above the beasts" (Ec 3:19); (2) proteuo, "to be first"; "That in all things he (= Christ) might have the preeminence" (Col 1:18); (3) ho philoproteuon, is translated "who loveth to have the preeminence," literally "who loveth to be first" (of Diotrephes, 3 Joh 1:9).

Moby Thesaurus

accent, accomplishment, ascendance, ascendancy, balance of power, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, deanship, distinction, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, eminent domain, emphasis, excellence, exquisiteness, favor, greatness, high order, high rank, illustriousness, import, importance, incomparability, inimitability, interest, kudos, lead, magnificence, majority, mark, marvelousness, masterdom, matchlessness, materiality, merit, moment, note, one-upmanship, overlordship, paramountcy, peerlessness, precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance, preponderancy, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, primacy, principality, priority, privilege, prominence, renown, right-of-way, self-importance, seniority, significance, skill, sovereignty, splendidness, splendiferousness, stress, success, superbness, supereminence, superexcellence, superfineness, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, transcendence, transcendency, unsurpassedness, upper hand, value, virtuosity, weight, whip hand, worth