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peerless, a.|ˈpɪəlɪs|
[f. peer n. + -less.]
Without peer; unequalled, matchless.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 1141 To þat pes pereles we prey þou vs bryng. 1390Gower Conf. III. 285 His doghter, which was piereles Of beaute. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxl. 281 He [Henry II] was pereles in chyualry, in warre, and in lechery. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 32 Such pierlesse pleasures haue we. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 608 The moon, Rising in clouded Majestie, at length Apparent Queen unvaild her peerless light. 1715Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 691 A person wonderful for..his peerless industry. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xix. 268 It stands out by itself with peerless grandeur, in annals sacred and profane.
b. in advb. constr.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vii. 4 Sa peirles proud, as na toung of man is able to discriue.
Hence ˈpeerlessly adv., ˈpeerlessness.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, The Gentle⁓woman..is not so peerelessely to bee doted vpon. 1611Cotgr., Singularité, singularitie, excellencie, peerlessnesse. 1656Trapp Comm. 2 Thess. ii. 3 That breathing devil, so portentously, so peerlessly vicious. 1865Kingsley Herew. xviii, She is peerlessly beautiful. 1894Chicago Advance 8 Feb., To exhibit the peerlessness of Christian Theism. |