单词 | peerlessness |
释义 | peerlessnessn. The condition of being peerless or unequalled. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique singlurec1400 oddness1581 unmatchableness1608 peerlessness1611 unmatchedness?1611 incomparability1632 incomparableness1633 inimitableness1660 unparalleledness1665 unparallelness1667 peculiarity1751 uniquity1789 uniqueness1802 unicity1859 phoenixity1886 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Singularité, singularitie, excellencie, peerlessnesse. 1716 D. Ryder Diary 31 Mar. (1939) (modernized text) 209 The houses that we saw at the distance I suspected to be enchanted castles and the trees to be giants and ourselves knight-errants that were ready to vindicate the peerlessness of the beauty of our ladies at the point of our swords. 1846 T. Cooper Baron's Yule Feast 12 The Baron's beauteous child is there, In her maiden peerlessness. 1894 Chicago Advance 8 Feb. To exhibit the peerlessness of Christian Theism. 1957 tr. K. Paustovsky Golden Rose 224 I was moved to tears because these canvases represented the height of human genius, the peerlessness of the human spirit and they appealed to the best and noblest in me. 1986 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 23 June c3 Wimbledon still stands as a monument to permanence, pageantry, and all-round peerlessness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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