supereminently

adv

1. In a supereminent manner; to a supreme degree.

   “He begins his letter under the same sensations he would have, if he were to accost her in person, only with this difference,—that he may take as much time as he pleases, for consideration, and need not write a single word that he has not well weighed and pondered beforehand, much less a sentence that he does not think supereminently clever.”

   “First, That the eastern states were supereminently commercial. Secondly, That the states south of the Susquehaijnah were wholly agricultural. Thirdly, I'hat there is a natural and inevitable hostility between commercial and agricultural states. Fourthly, That this hostility has uniformly pervaded the whole southern section of the union. And Fifthly, That all measures of congress were dictated by this hostility: and were actually intended to ruin the commercial, meaning the eastern states.”

   “I asked him how she received this piece of candour. ' Oh ! just as aU such candid avowals are received; she never forgave me for it. She endeavoured to prove to me 'au contraire,' the tendencies of both her novels were supereminently moral.”