| 单词 | superlative degree |
| 例句 | The Times acknowledged that “in describing it, the superlative degree must be kept in constant use.” The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 2013-01-19T04:37:09Z Yes, Raymond, I remember the sermon perfectly; but I cannot feel that to possess humility, even in a superlative degree, would be to possess, as the Apostle commands, the 'Mind' of Christ. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z But, if his talents and virtues were in the superlative degree, so also were his failings. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z "It was cool daring in the superlative degree." For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Here we have "the immaculate conception" in the superlative degree, and while much more beautiful and grand it cannot be more senseless or unreasonable than the conception by a ghost. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z We have his own word for it that he was as ambitious of such preferment as Douglas was; and this was putting it in the superlative degree. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z I hardly need explain that "number one," throughout the far East, means the superlative degree. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z Unconsciously it intensifies him to a superlative degree, and inspires him with an awe of itself that becomes sacred to him. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Most or least, used in the superlative degree, 78. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The superlative degree so variously affirmed, however, was evidently a source of attraction in Mrs. Westgate, for the elder man was constantly at his hostess’s side. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z To balance this, she was still handsome, if somewhat too stout, and hospitable to a superlative degree. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Grandeur, too, seems always to possess greatness, though not in this superlative degree; while ‘beauty’ neither invariably possesses it nor tends, like prettiness and grace, to exclude it. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z All her life she had been terrorised by the fear of a wrath which had never reached the superlative degree until that day. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z When several objects are compared, the superlative degree of the adjective is used to express the highest or the lowest possible degree of the adjective. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z In the superlative degree it was unreasonable and ridiculous. The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It 2011-03-02T03:00:26.877Z This constitutes the demagogue, and he is that in superlative degree. Labor and Freedom He was looking forward with a half-shamed excitement to the luxury of relief and stimulation which he knew the morphia, so long refrained from, would give him to a superlative degree. Shadows of Flames A Novel Being brought about under such peculiar and almost unique circumstances it presented the effects of spider-poison in a superlative degree and showed them to be identical with those of snake-poison. On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote In Anne Hutchinson that overpowering quality of enthusiasm was to be found in a superlative degree, and thus, above all, we find in her the type of the coming woman of America. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) Make the uniformed corps to the State and to the militia forces, in a comparative, what the West Point Academy is to the United States and to the regular army in a superlative degree. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Chief, right, supreme, correct, true, universal, perfect, consummate, extreme, &c., imply the superlative degree without adding est, or prefixing most. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected Such villainy seemed to me to be beyond the art of any actor, and it certainly seemed to be a superlative degree of crime and deception impossible in real life. Cupid's Middleman To breathe, to exist, is to realize the superlative degree of my exquisite happiness! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century And no epithet should be used to qualify success, but one in the most superlative degree. The Landleaguers In this village of Corbeny there had been sad devastation; but it was at Berry au Bac that we were to see the superlative degree of misery. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) It served as the superlative degree of height. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Their great popularity is based, however, on two qualifications not mentioned above, and both of which they possess in a superlative degree. The Mayflower, January, 1905 And, in making out this summer suit, he would construe the letter of the law in the superlative degree, which says, "A suit of cheap clothing,"—he obtaining the cheapest, the most miserably poor. The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences These things were the mainspring of his life, and drove him to such superlative degrees of self-sacrifice that could surely only have been endured by a man of his peculiar mind. The Twins of Suffering Creek This was not good Latin, but it evinced a knowledge on Sancho’s part, of the nature of the superlative degree. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue It is not that they revealed a superlative degree of disorganization. England and Germany The language of love is mostly adjectives of the superlative degree. Oklahoma Sunshine To tell the truth, Home's whole career, with its scintillating, melodramatic, and uniformly successful phases is altogether inexplicable unless it be assumed that he possessed the hypnotist's qualities in a superlative degree. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters This genius Marheyo possessed in a superlative degree, as he abundantly evinced by the use to which he put these sorely bruised and battered old shoes. Typee The theory being admitted, we can, by approximation, determine the comparative antiquity of the superlative degree. A Handbook of the English Language For the sake of territory which they do not yet covet, or of prestige which they enjoy in a superlative degree already? England and Germany I contrived, before the day had passed, to become very sick of Harwich and myself; for of all dull holes in this kingdom of England, does not this one claim the superlative degree? A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition Miss Cotton, demonstrative pronoun; compare good, and she is in the superlative degree. The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. Insomuch that some of these adjectives, when declined through all their cases, and genders, and numbers, in their positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, enumerate fifty or sixty terminations. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes The m was the Anglo-Saxon sign of the superlative degree. A Handbook of the English Language Sometimes it precedes it, and in that case it changes the initial of the noun to the second state, unless the adjective is in the comparative or superlative degree, when the initial is unchanged. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature That she possessed sex magnetism in a superlative degree in spite of her deliberate aloofness, Clavering had, of course, been conscious from the first. Black Oxen Miss Vincent, manner the imperative mood; self, first person singular; mind, imperfect tense; eyes, positive; voice, in the superlative degree; nose, the interrogative point. The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. What the crowd does is to raise an emotion to a superlative degree. A Dominie in Doubt In short, m is an old sign of the superlative degree; probably older than the usual form, -st, discussed in � 254. A Handbook of the English Language It made an impressive advertisement, as most nostrum "ads" are, because, unfortunately, the art of the liar is best expressed in the superlative degree. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies For religion is but love and reverence in the superlative degree, and the natural operation of love is to copy, and the natural operation of reverence is the same. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John It is profit, pleasure, preferment in the superlative degree, and not scattered in so many various streams which divide and distract the heart, but all combined in one. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning O'Donoghue was sometimes placed in the position of the superlative degree of comparison. Lalage's Lovers By referring to � 259, we see that -m was an early sign of the superlative degree. A Handbook of the English Language But Dickens never saw Strongfaith Lippincott, the schoolmaster, nor heard his lugubrious flute, and he therefore knows nothing of the superlative degree of detestable playing. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States Of this temperament was Turgot in a superlative degree, and its fire never abated in him from college days, down to the last hours while he lay racked with irremediable anguish. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot But we must pray with all manner of “prayer and supplication in the Spirit;” and more yet, “watching thereunto;” and to express the superlative degree of the necessity of prayer, he adds “with all perseverance.” The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The exterior shows to a superlative degree that general tendency of Provençal exteriors to be without definite or logical proportions. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Adverbs of this kind are capable of taking an inflection, viz., that of the comparative and superlative degrees. A Handbook of the English Language The drawings of Rembrandt possess this quality in a superlative degree, and the slightest indication seems sufficient to mark the character and leading features of the object represented. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. These are a fine race of men, possessing, in a superlative degree, some of the noblest qualities of the human race. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Therefore he attains his end in the highest and most superlative degree of certainty and infallibility. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It is the result of a real, though perilous, gift of nature—a gift which she possesses in something of a superlative degree. My Contemporaries In Fiction Over and above the etymological signs of the comparative and superlative degrees, there may be used the superlative words more and most. A Handbook of the English Language Everything about him savoured of the superlative degree. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines Rowing, shooting, fishing, boxing, and swimming seemed to come naturally to him, and all of them in a superlative degree. Charlie to the Rescue But when once it loses its hold upon concrete reality it becomes the weakest, and not all the protests of debility, superlative degrees, and rhetorical insistence, can save it from neglect. Milton The principles of composition-writing apply to advertising in the superlative degree. Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School They seem, indeed, to have it, when they are in the comparative or superlative degree; but it is merely apparent. A Handbook of the English Language Everything is as it was, only in the superlative degree. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. And since Molly Lovel, on my showing, was both in a superlative degree, it follows that she must have loved much. Little Novels of Italy We could get along well enough with the old adjectives, badly as the superlative degree of some of them has been used. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I can well understand that, when you condemn transcendentalism, you object not to the principle, but to the practice, in the superlative degree, of that principle. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 "Beauty and music and life, in the superlative degree; when it all happens together, in one woman—she grips." Son of Power A strong spiritual kinship drew him to Schiller, whose splendor of imagery and impassioned rhetoric were the very gifts which he himself in a superlative degree possessed. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Such an one, however, we are proud to say, was not Tom Hardesty, though bachelor he was, in the superlative degree. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 For the cow without hard labor and study is already a philosopher of the superlative degree in the school of nature. The Promulgation of Universal Peace These people, who are called ‘Followers of the inner light’, attain to a superlative degree of power, and are entirely freed from blind dogmas and imitations. Paris Talks The perfections of the mineral are translated into the vegetable and from thence into the animal, the virtue always attaining a plus or superlative degree in the upward change. Bahá’í World Faith This dynamic power is present to a superlative degree in the very nature of the Persian people, and the spread of education will release it. The Secret of Divine Civilization The famous Three Brothers' Saloon occupies a position about midway the alley, and at its doors, the acme, the culminating point, the superlative degree of unquietude and discontent is reached. Violets and Other Tales In a short period of time those barbarous peoples attained a superlative degree of civilization which, with Baghdád as its center, extended as far westward as Spain and afterward influenced the greater part of Europe. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The spontaneous instinct of readers has taken the name of Rupert Brooke to illustrate the poetic spirit of the great war in a superlative degree. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters In a short period of time those barbarous peoples attained a superlative degree of civilization which with Baghdád as its center extended as far westward as Spain and afterward influenced the greater part of Europe. Bahá’í World Faith The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age That he possessed the craftiness of his race in a superlative degree, and that he used this to baffle his opponents on the field of battle, cannot be denied. The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant He united these wandering flocks, brought them under control of divine law, educated and unified them, caused them to agree and uplifted them to a superlative degree of development. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Mrs. Hartley I own to still find handsomer, and Miss Linley, to be the superlative degree. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment And now the "superlative degree" had certainly displayed itself, Will thought in his wretchedness, only it had manifested itself in the extreme which he never had before believed to be possible with him. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College This is the superlative degree of miraculous power revealed in this matchless wooing of a faithless nation. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel As it is, many of our young men are padded to a superlative degree, and have corns and bunions on every separate toe from wearing shoes too tight. Around The Tea-Table In the human kingdom spiritual susceptibilities come into view, love exercises its superlative degree, and this is the cause of human life. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or superlative degree; as, "The more I examine it, the better I like it," "I like this the least of any." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The superlative degree is abhorrent to him unless he can misuse it for comic purposes; and, like the ridiculous dummy lord in "Nicholas Nickleby," he is quite capable of calling Shakespeare a "very clayver man." The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The fine wooing of this matchless Lover came to its superlative degree that night. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel This greatness appears in superlative degree in the self-effacement of him who possessed these powers. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth As a matter of fact, this supposed excellence is possessed in its superlative degree by the animals. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The phrases "most supreme," and "chiefest," in the first sentence, are incorrect, because supreme and chief are in the superlative degree without having the superlative form superadded, which addition makes them double superlatives. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The demon seems to be of the superlative degree. Quiet Talks on Prayer Nazareth was put in as a sort of superlative degree of contempt. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel I think I'll blot out the superlative degree in my grammar, for the comparative gives me all the trouble I can stand. Reveries of a Schoolmaster The perfections of the mineral are translated into the vegetable and from thence into the animal, the virtue always attaining a superlative degree in the upward change. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The superlative degree increases or lessens the positive to the highest or lowest degree; as, best, wisest, greatest, least wise. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures In young Andrew Jackson these characteristics appeared in a superlative degree. The Reign of Andrew Jackson His recognition of her station as his own wife pictures the superlative degree of her honor and glory. The Harp of God Though Hogan was a scamp in the superlative degree, the burly ruffian who seated himself by his side looked the character much better. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake There is no attainment in the contingent realm of which it may be said, “Beyond this state of being and perfection there is no other,” or “This has achieved the superlative degree.” The Promulgation of Universal Peace More and most form the comparative and superlative degrees by increasing the positive; and less and least, by diminishing it. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Mark 15:34 margin.--the superlative degree of suffering. Quiet Talks about Jesus She is said to have been gifted in a superlative degree with all that is considered most lovely in a woman's character. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Adjectives are regularly compared by adding the syllables er and est to the positive to form the comparative and superlative degrees. Composition-Rhetoric The repetition of the word degree, in saying, "The superlative degree increases or lessens the positive to the highest or lowest degree," is a disagreeable tautology. The Grammar of English Grammars When the positive ends in d, or t, preceded by a single vowel, the consonant is doubled in forming the comparative and superlative degrees; as red, redder, reddest; hot, hotter, hottest. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It is the superlative degree of hate, brooded and born, and grown lusty in hell. Quiet Talks about Jesus To a curious and superlative degree he could appreciate a defeat as well as a triumph. The Hunted Woman The comparative and superlative degrees may be formed by adding the syllables er and est to the positive degree. Composition-Rhetoric Best is a common adjective, of the superlative degree; compared irregularly, good, better, best. The Grammar of English Grammars Very, prefixed to the comparative, expresses a degree of quality, but not always a superlative degree. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It was God's master touch that, through yielding, it becomes to all men for all time the superlative degree of love. Quiet Talks about Jesus And, besides, Hyacinth herself, Anne had, in a most superlative degree, enjoyed the house, her little authority, the way she stood between Hyacinth and all tedious little practical matters. Love's Shadow No man reaches the superlative degree of wickedness all at once. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The superlative degree is that which is most or least of all included with it. The Grammar of English Grammars She has the gift of song—not indeed in the superlative degree—but nevertheless unmistakable; and she has a full mind. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century One firm has barred all superlative adjectives, not merely to guard against exaggeration but because the superlative degree lacks conviction. Business Correspondence All she knew was to be a consequential young lady of distinction, full of exalted qualifying adjectives in the superlative degree. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Those three different regions, sorry am I to say it, are all very dirty; indeed they may be said to be the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of uncleanness. Tom Cringle's Log The superlative degree is that which is most or least of all included with it. The Grammar of English Grammars Notice, too, that the adjective in the comparative and superlative degrees always expresses the quality relatively. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition "He is lavish of the superlative degree; is good-hearted as his race; and for the time being, feels intensely," she answered. A Heart-Song of To-day Distinguish the uses of the comparative and the superlative degree. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Our cousin here uses the superlative degree when the comparative would be more appropriate. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States "The superlative degree is that which is not exceeded; as, hardest, softest, best." The Grammar of English Grammars Besides these strong characteristics he had inherited, in a superlative degree, the shrewd common-sense of Piero, and his mother's passionate love of Florence, with all her enthusiasm for what was pure, cultured, philanthropic, and religious. The Tragedies of the Medici Mrs. Hartley I find still handsomer, and Miss Linley is to be the superlative degree. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Women possess them to a superlative degree, and it is in these qualities that they wish men to resemble them. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, and Dr. Faustus show in the superlative degree the love of conquest, of wealth, and of knowledge. Halleck's New English Literature The superlative degree requires that the object to which it relates, be one of those with which it is compared; as, "Eve was the fairest of women." The Grammar of English Grammars Singular, what foolish children love makes of us!--rendering us sensitive, jealous, exacting, in the superlative degree. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 It's the power of deception carried to a superlative degree. The Bars of Iron In the winter, however, their mutual admiration was nipped by a killing frost, and a controversy sprung up between them which soon led to mutual recrimination also in the superlative degree. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Don't use the superlative degree of the adjective for the comparative; as "He is the richest of the two" for "He is the richer of the two." How to Speak and Write Correctly Purest is a common adjective, of the superlative degree; compared regularly, pure, purer, purest. The Grammar of English Grammars The translations of Pushkin and of Lermontov have never impressed foreign readers in the superlative degree. Essays on Russian Novelists They're blatant, truly, in the superlative degree, and I call them successfully so for just this reason, that poor Mother is to all appearance perfectly unaware of it. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors "And you always want to see it in the superlative degree." Flower of the North A Modern Romance The first cast I took in my furnace succeeded in the superlative degree, and was so clean that my friends thought I should not need to retouch it. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini The superlative degree is that which is most or least of all included with it. The Grammar of English Grammars Saat was a boy that would do no evil; he was honest to a superlative degree, and a great exception to the natives of this wretched country. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile Proud and haughty to a superlative degree, in his heart he detests all extraneous counsel and interference, and would rather glide onward to destruction than grasp the hand stretched out to save him. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 He was honest to a superlative degree, and a great exception to the natives of this wretched country. In the Heart of Africa The latter were seldom of more than one thousand tons' register and combined in a superlative degree the good qualities of merchant ships. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors It is evident that the superlative degree is not, in general, that which cannot be exceeded, but that which, in the actual state of the things included, "is not exceeded." The Grammar of English Grammars He described the people as lying and deceitful to a superlative degree; the more they receive the more they desire, but in return they will do nothing. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile As a ward of the state he developed a superlative degree of independence and fomented much petty mischief. The Cruise of the Snark This genius Marheyo possessed in a superlative degree, as he abundantly evinced by the use to which he put those sorely bruised and battered old shoes. Typee Lazy to a superlative degree, he does nothing, however, until he is prodded by the bayonets of need. A Daughter of Eve The superlative degree is that which is most or least of all included with it. The Grammar of English Grammars If Mr. Harcourt has been told by any one that the Lagden Commission recommended any of these pitiless iniquities, then we are afraid that his informer is a romancer of the superlative degree. Native Life in South Africa He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree. Bleak House Now, according to Murray's definition, which Kirkham adopts, none of these words can be at all in the superlative degree. The Grammar of English Grammars "The superlative degree is generally formed by adding st or est to the positive; and denotes the greatest excess." The Grammar of English Grammars "The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree." The Grammar of English Grammars "Certain Adverbs are capable of taking an Inflection, namely, that of the comparative and the superlative degrees." The Grammar of English Grammars |
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