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superiority

[suh-peer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, soo-]

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noun

the quality or condition of being superior.

Origin:
1520–30; < Medieval Latin superiōritāt- (stem of superiōritās). See superior, -ity

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the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).

opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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Example Sentences

The superiority of breach-loading cannon is practically acknowledged by the numerous and costly efforts made to produce them.

They hide behind the peer-reviewed process and foist their feelings of superiority on others.

She duly rules over her family and nannies with regal superiority.

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The superiority of breach-loading cannon is practically acknowledged by the numerous and costly efforts made to produce them.

They hide behind the peer-reviewed process and foist their feelings of superiority on others.

She duly rules over her family and nannies with regal superiority.

Marketing designed to convince consumers of bottled water's superiority over tap water largely drives the product's sales.

Humans have long enjoyed crowing about their intellectual superiority in the animal kingdom.

Most must resort to an iron self-discipline bolstered by a hefty dose of superiority over those who eat junk food.

The superiority of blades has long been seen as evidence of human superiority.

Kipling himself, that since men are superior in life they cannot fail to retain their superiority in fiction of the highest.

Unless you're from a certain kind of family, no, it has not to do with moral superiority but with the right to amends.

Its faster growth might also be a cyclical phenomenon-evidence not of superiority but simply of a lack of.

It is not about superiority or anything it is about the origin of mankind.

Male superiority is in spreading of gene of their group and female superiority is in selecting best partner for herself.

Either way, step down--the superiority and condescension is far more disdainful than branding a calf.

We seek neither military superiority nor political advantage.

Pitching and the condition of the pitchers this week will decide the world's championship rather than general superiority.

Yet while it encouraged juvenile fantasies of superiority and prowess, football also taught lessons of humility.

The case for the superiority of markets over planners is empirical, not deductive.

Any ethologist will tell you about the superiority in sensory resolution many species are genetically endowed with.

Fortunately, this air of superiority is largely deserving.

So far these tests seem to show the superiority of the cement and concrete brick over the clay brick now in use.

My superiority to all, myths and minions included, is patent.

But then he throws that superiority away by scoffing at any possibility of reaching such a reckoning.

The people who believe they aren't are simply trying to support the notion of human superiority over animals.

The trade off is the lack of a physical medium to show off to your friends as a sign of music superiority.

O'Brien's superiority among the younger male viewers who have traditionally made up the core.

It's difficult to maintain any moral superiority when your drunken revels are out there for public consumption.

Their superiority to central planning is well attested.

Yes, my vast superiority allows me to think of dozens of ways to reliably crush a pipe.

She can't be mistaken about this superiority imposing itself so brutally.

But studies suggest that their superiority is at best modest, specific to certain symptoms and variable from drug to drug.

However, many of you will continue to claim some sort of intellectual superiority because of your chosen side.

Certainly, the superiority of the single, consolidated regulator has yet to be proved.

Stein's beef is that one side is claiming scientific superiority win in fact it is not the case.

Purcell, your words ooze with a sense of superiority.

But because it is not in wide use, it has yet to prove its advertised superiority over traditional.

The issue here isn't the superiority of city life over small-town life, or vice versa.

Biological determination is pet idea of so called western intelligences who blindly believed superiority of white race.

Haiti did not only represent a threat to the harmful trade of slavery, but a forceful impediment to white superiority.

One practice that can potentially temper feelings of moral superiority is religion.

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World English Dictionary

superior (suːˈpɪərɪə)

—*adj* (foll by to)
1.	greater in quality, quantity, etc
2.	of high or extraordinary worth, merit, etc
3.	higher in rank or status: a superior tribunal
4.	displaying a conscious sense of being above or better than others; supercilious
5.	not susceptible (to) or influenced (by)
6.	placed higher up; situated further from the base
7.	astronomy
	a. (of a planet) having an orbit further from the sun than the orbit of the earth
	b. (of a conjunction) occurring when the sun lies between the earth and an inferior planet
8.	(of a plant ovary) situated above the calyx and other floral parts
9.	anatomy (of one part in relation to another) situated above or higher
10.	printing (of a character) written or printed above the line; superscript

—n
11.	a person or thing of greater rank or quality
12.	printing a character set in a superior position
13.	(often capital) the head of a community in a religious order

[C14: from Latin, from superus placed above, from super above]

usage Superior should not be used with than: he is a better (not a superior) poet than his brother; his poetry is superior to (not superior than) his brother's

su'perioress

—*fem n*

superiority

—n

su'periorly

—*adv*

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