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unˈmatchable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of being matched or equalled; incomparable, matchless. Also const. by.
In very common use from c 1590 to c 1660.
1544Betham Precepts War i. lxxxix. E vj, The renoume of that capitayne..is vnmatcheable. 1587A. Day Daphnis & Chloe (1890) 16 Loue, the..Soueraigne of their vnmacheable bewties. 1649Baxter Saint's R. ii. v. §3. 218 Those divine unmatchable Psalms. 1683Brit. Spec. 277 With un⁓matchable Valor, and Extraordinary Hazard of his Princely Person. c1799Villario iii. iii. in New Brit. Theatre II. 165 It is the mind that is unmatchable By aught on earth. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xvii. §51 Of such landscape..he has expressed the power in..a central and un⁓matchable way. 1881Tennyson Cup i. i, The brows and eyes Of Venus: face and form unmatchable!
b. Incapable of being compared to others.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. 45 These Britaines, although..vnmatchable to them in educated ciuility, yet [etc.].
c. To which nothing properly matching can be found. (See match v. 9 b.)
1809Sir G. Jackson in Diaries & Lett. (1873) I. 3 A scrap of riband..unmatchable in Bath. 1852Miss Sewell Experience of Life xiv. (1858) 95, I was especially directed to match some unmatchable silk.
2. Incapable of being matched together.
1643Milton Divorce 18 He forbids all unmatchable and unmingling natures to consort. 1645― Tetrach. 48 His law tells us he joynes not unmachable things.
Hence unˈmatchableness.
1627Bp. Hall Epist. iv. ii. 340 In the presumption of his vnmatchablenesse. 1676Doctrine of Devils 182 The Un⁓matchableness of his Antagonist being considered. |