preëminence

See also: preeminence, prééminence, and pre-eminence

English

preëminence

Rare spelling of preeminence.
- 1879, “Lake Lucerne”, in “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”, New York, N.Y.: […] G. P. Putnam’s Sons, […], page 387:
  When the minister and his wife entered their new home, a great assembly of both parties gathered, and all the ladies struggled for preëminence in the delicious cates and viands they brought.

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