incomparably
English
[edit]Etymology
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From incomparable + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]incomparably (comparative more incomparably, superlative most incomparably)
- In an incomparable manner.
- 1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities, page 192:
- […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]
- 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, page 226:
- […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater
- 2018 August 6, Erik Wemple, “What a Dumb Weekend”, in The Washington Post[1], archived from the original on 22 August 2018:
- After plowing through some names—including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, “the great Lou Dobbs” and the incomparably sequacious Steve Doocy... Trump caught himself...
- 1947 December 4, Christopher Hollis, Hansard:
- It has been the most important traditional rôle of this country that it should act as a great uniter of the nations in that cultural fashion. We are the motherland of what is incomparably the most important language of the world and we have, to our glory, one of the greatest literatures of the world.
Translations
[edit]in an incomparable manner
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