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ПРЕВЫШЕ ВСЕГО lit AdvP Invar fixed WO

1. любить, ценить, ставить кого-что и т. п.

adv

(to love, value, appreciate etc s.o. or sth. ) to a greater extent than (one loves, values, appreciates etc) all others

more than anyone (anything)

most of all.

Превыше всего он ценил в людях порядочность и умение держать слово. What he valued more than anything in people was their decency and their ability to be true to their word.

2. ( subj-compl with copula ( subj: usu. abstr or collect) ) sth. is more important (to s.o. ) than anything else: (be) most important (of all)

(come) before all else (in limited contexts) (be (have)) top priority.

«Только тут я сообразил, что меня обманули. Объегорили подло, мелко, предательски. У кого на моем месте не опустились бы руки, но я человек долга, долг для меня превыше всего» (Максимов 2). "It was only then that I realized I had been cheated. I had been basely, pettily, treacherously swindled. Anyone in my place would have given up the struggle, but I am a man of duty, with me, duty comes before all else" (2a).