super-superlativeadj.n.

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 65 We may wel say..all too little to set forth the..supersuperlatiue knauery of these times [Fr. nous n'exprimons pas suffisamment le superlatif desbordement qui est auiourdhuy en cest endroit.].

1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 12 The Archbishops super-superlative power.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 198 Union is most desirable with brethren Protestants; nay, Protestants of the best profession in the world. This is super-superlative.

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 422 His highest taste—That super-superlative gout.

1789 T. Holcroft tr. King Friedrich II Let. in Correspondence 347 He is super-superlative when he new traces, in his own language, the thoughts of M. de Voltaire.

1796 Star 23 Apr. The Super Superlative Degree.

1820 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 341 Super-superlative Sublimity.

1856 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 19/1 She was a silken perfumed mass of good nature, vanity, egoism, and thorough worldliness, with the affectation of super-superlative refinedness.

1870 Western Monthly Aug. 159/1 Great, sublimely great, is he [sc. a newspaper reporter] in the use of superlatives, and of these he uses only the super-superlative kind.

1929 O. W. Holmes Let. June 297 I wrote to a man yesterday, who had said super-superlative things, that if the devil came round the corner and said: You and I know that that isn't true, I should believe him.

1996 A. Motyer Look to Rock (2004) iv. 67 Man is the super-superlative creature, the creature par-excellence, the one whose essential nature is unique creatureliness.

1623 S. Purchas Kings Towre 74 The super superlatiue of treasons.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot 86 We must necessarily allow of a super-superlative, and a hyper to that if need require.

1801 R. Southey Let. to J. Rickman 20 Nov. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. viii. 176 We must create a super-superlative to reach the idea of his magnitude.

1874 Horticulturist Aug. 240/1 How prone horticulturists and florists to the use of the superlative and super-superlative in naming their pets! Only think of the ‘gems’, ‘pearls’, ‘rubies’, ‘fairies’, ‘queens’, ‘beauties’, ‘triumphs’, ‘delights’, ‘colossals’, ‘mammoths’, ‘giants’..and ‘glories’ presented in almost any good-sized floral catalogue.

1920 Alpha Phi Q. 32 72 If one wished to hear some super-superlatives of the adjectives good and fine, all one had to do was to inquire what kind of time they had at Madison.

1951 Sci. News-Let. 60 373/1 If the modern superlative for big explosions is the atomic bomb, the volcano is a super-superlative.

2006 Wallpaper June 58/1 Italians love using titles. Anyone with a degree can be referred to as il dottore, while lawyers are often called l'avvocato. Il maestro is the ultimate title, a kind of super-superlative.

1632 W. Loe Incomparable Jewell 3 The Quare is rationall, and discloseth it selfe into five parcels... Fourthly, Superlatively, Above Rubies: Fifthly, and lastly, Super-superlatively, Farre above Rubies.

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. Pref. sig. A4^v Men so transcendently perfidious, and so supersuperlatively unfaithfull.

1649 E. Simmons in T. Wodenote Hermes Theologus Pref. sig. A9^v The malitious Jews..were not so super-superlatively vile as to consult his [sc. Christ's] death because he was content in their stead..to be accounted as a sinner.

1660 T. Hall Beauty of Magistracy 69 Thus the Arminians (to curry favour with great ones, and the better to suppress Synods) supersuperlatively extolled the Power of the Magistrate in Ecclesiastical affairs.

1827 Truthteller 31 Mar. 452 There is something super-superlatively inconsistent in the reverend Champions against Popery.

1997 H. H. Vendler Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets 173 But having in his inventory of enjoyments arrived at his beloved (that which he super-superlatively most most enjoys), he was supremely contented.