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Superiority

noun

The quality of being superior. Synonym: high quality.

The quality of being at a competitive advantage. Synonyms: favorable position, favourable position.

Displaying a sense of being better than others.

The state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits. Synonyms: transcendence, transcendency.

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... Vendome pointed out that, in a country so broken and interspersed with hedges, an army possessing the greatest strength—for the French numbered eighty-five thousand, while Marlborough had but eighty thousand under him—would lose the advantage of that superiority; and, upon Berwick strongly siding with the marshal, Burgundy was forced to ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

... fishes can be mounted by the average taxidermist and it is with these we are mostly concerned. There are almost as many methods of mounting fish as there are operators, each having some pet kink of real or fancied superiority. ...

— Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit • Albert B. Farnham

... the following day she joined the military exercises, challenged many cavaliers, and exhibited so much address and bravery, that she produced great astonishment among the spectators. Long before noon the horsemen of her cousin were compelled to acknowledge her superiority over themselves. Khaled wished to witness her prowess, and, surprised at the sight of so much skill, he offered to match himself with her. Djaida entered the contest with him, and then both of them joining in combat ...

— Oriental Literature - The Literature of Arabia • Anonymous

... they have generally a very mean opinion of each other. Indeed, I never met with a Pole who did not look down with a self-satisfied smile of pity on any of his fellow-countrymen, even on his best friend. It seems that their feeling of individual superiority is as great as that of their national superiority. Liszt's observations (see Vol. I., p. 259) and those of other writers (Polish as well as non-Polish) confirm mine, which else might rightly be supposed to be based on ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... sector were less formidable than elsewhere, and they were easier of approach than other parts of the enemy's defences. When Beersheba was in our hands we should have an open flank against which to operate, and I could make full use of our superiority in mounted troops, and a success here offered prospects of pursuing our advantage and forcing the enemy to abandon the rest of his fortified positions, which no other ...

— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various

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