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incomparably, adv.|ɪnˈkɒmpərəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2; cf. F. incomparablement (12–13th c.), L. incomparābiliter.]
In an incomparable manner or degree; in a way that does not admit of comparison; beyond comparison.
c1422Hoccleve Learn to Die 257 Goostly lucres & wynnynges..Exceedynge in value all eerthly thynges Inconparablely. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1263 Hire bemes ouer alle the sternes ere incomparabli bright. 1531Elyot Gov. i. xxvii, Shootinge in the longe bowe..incomparably excelleth all other exercise. 1634Heywood Maidenhead iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 131 Does not the new Gowne the Prince sent my Mistresse, become her most incomparably? 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1674) 14 The structure even of the rarest watch is incomparably inferiour to that of a humane body. 1712Addison Spect. No. 419 ⁋7 Shakespear has incomparably excelled all others. 1855Emerson in Scot. Rev. (1883) 283 Incomparable things said incomparably well. 1870Rogers Hist. Gleanings Ser. ii. 115 Strafford..was incomparably the abler of the two. |