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unˈequalled, ppl. a.
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1622Fletcher Sea Voy. iv. i, Do ye like wealth, and most unequal'd beauty? 1639W. Berkeley Lost Lady i. i, I will relate the story of his Unequal'd suffrings. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 983 Chiefly assur'd..of thy so true, So faithful Love unequald. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. ii. ii. 38 No; 'tis th' unequall'd beauty of its train Deludes your eye. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 177 Why should there be..such unequalled heats, and such unequalled evaporation? 1841Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. viii. 120 Our ancestors were rare architects. Their painted glass and their carved oak are unequalled. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 81 Buildings which are unequalled for grandeur.
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1769Goldsm. Hist. Rome (1786) II. 103 An act of unequalled heroism by anything that had hitherto appeared in Rome. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 19 A violence and noise unequalled by the loudest cataracts. 1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 64 The battering-ram..exerted a force which in some respects rendered it unequalled by our battering cannon. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 124 A panorama..unequalled..by any view in Greece. |