unparagoned
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unparagoned (not comparable)
- (archaic) Superlative; the best; without equal.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 372, column 1:
- Either your vnparagon'd Miſtirs is dead, or ſhe's out-priz'd by a trifle.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 376, column 2:
- Rubies vnparagon'd, How deerely they doo't: