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Webster 1913 Edition

Incomparable

In-com′pa-ra-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
incomparabilis
: cf. F.
incomparable
. See
In-
not, and
Comparable
.]
Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.
A merchant of
incomparable
wealth.
Shakespeare
–
In-com′pa-ra-ble-ness
,
Noun.
–
In-com′pa-ra-bly
,
adv.
Delights
incomparably
all those corporeal things.
Bp. Wilkins.

Webster 1828 Edition

Incomparable

INCOM'PARABLE

,
Adj.
[in and comparable.] That admits of no comparison with others; usually in a good sense, but it may be properly used in a bad sense. When we say, an incomparable man, we mean a man of good qualities, or of some excellence that raises him above comparison or equality with others. So we say, incomparable excellence, virtue, wit, &c. But incomparable baseness or malignity may be used with propriety.

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