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unsurˈpassable, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1611Cotgr., Insurmontable,..vnsurpassable, vnvanquishable. 1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 243 The descriptive parts of this idyll are capital—are unsurpassable. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. iii. iii, For freshness of style,..that opening Harangue of his was unsurpassable. 1876Contemp. Rev. June 36 A sea-board..capable of producing..fruits, in quantities unsurpassable.
Hence unsurˈpassably adv.
1859Ruskin Two Paths App. i. 254 Entirely, admirably, unsurpassably right, under the conditions. 1872Carlyle's Schiller Wks. 1899 XXV. 226 Dannecker..has unsurpassably cut this head in marble for us. |
