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unˈparalleled, ppl. a.
(un-1 8, 5 b.)
In very common use from c 1610.
1594Drayton Leg. Matilda xvi, The most iudiciall eyes Did giue the gole impartially to me; So did I stand vnparaleld and free. 1608Machin Dumbe Knt. i. i, Dost thou not think, Shee is the mirrour of her beauteous sexe, Unparalleld, and uncompanioned? 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §2 Those many unparalleld miracles, which were wrought among them. 1713J. Warder True Amazons (title-p.), Their..unparallelled Love to their Queen. 1770Junius Lett. xli. (1788) 231 note, The..Judge..had the unparallelled impudence to tell [etc.]. 1814Scott Diary 16 Aug. in Lockhart, Monuments..otherwise unparalleled in Britain. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 354 Progress..made in the face of these unparalleled disasters.
Hence unˈparalleledly adv., -edness.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 5 His intercurrent judgements of Fire between this first and that last president of unparalleledness. 1815Ann Smith Diary in Life (1851) 40 The freedom, sovereignty, and unparallelledness of his love. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXV. 448 It is unparalleledly impudent. |