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† sans-peer, saunce-pere Obs.
Forms: see sans and peer n.
As adj. phr.: Without equal, peerless. Also occas. advb.: As one that has no equal. Often used as a proper name or surname; hence n., a person who has no equal.
a1400Pistill of Susan 33 (MS. I) Prestes hye of priuylage were praysed saune pere. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 14087, I wolde be holden ay sanz per, And by my syluen synguler. c1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 291/19 Lady saunzpere. a1529Skelton Bouge of Court 51 The owner therof is lady of estate, Whoos name to tell is dame Saunce-pere. 1576N. R. in Gascoigne Steele Gl. To Author (Arb.) 46 In Elegies, and wanton loue writ laies Sance peere were Naso, and Tibullus deemde. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 8 The Iesuits being men holden of all,..to be sance peres of the Christian globe. Ibid. 16 All..right Alchumists, that is, sance peeres in all things. |