superlative degree

I have known a few people who possessed it to a superlative degree, as one of my scribes here does.

The Qualitative adjectives are those which can have comparative and superlative degrees.

The superlative degree is expressed by the adverb en "most".

He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree.

He was honest to a superlative degree, and a great exception to the natives of this wretched country.

The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.

With his father, the superlative degree returned infallibly.

The suffix -issime may be used to express the absolute superlative degree.

While wondering about adjectives, he came across a notation which stated that the repetition of such a word gave it comparative or superlative degree.

A hypocatastasis has more force than a metaphor or simile, and expresses as it were a superlative degree of resemblance.

As a ward of the state he developed a superlative degree of independence and fomented much petty mischief.

If the stress of the second occurrence is shifted to the first syllable, then the reduplicated root suggests a superlative degree, as in (7).

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.

Superlative Degree:

Actors and reputations were compressed into the space of an adjective, usually the superlative degree: sexiest, most sultry, most beautiful.

The comparative and relative superlative degrees are both formed around the word più (literally "plus", meaning "more" or "most"), for instance:

The positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, in linguistics (e.g. "good", "better", and "best", respectively)

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.

Comparative degree is expressed by plus or minus preceding the adjective and superlative degree by le plus or le minus.

For us, there is no question of partial, comparatively partial or complete decoupling, or of a comparative or superlative degree of extermination of small- and medium-sized agriculture in the South.

If one succeeds in achieving these to a superlative degree then that person will be of benefit to all mankind from the afterlife while those who are far from God have no power to affect the living any more.

The latter conception defines God through a series of explicit positive statements called cataphatic theology, themselves universal but in the divine taken to their superlative degrees: as well as being explicitly male, he is omniscient and omnipotent.

This was not the case at all with the Prophet at the moment of revelation, for his cognitive faculties used to be strengthened-rather than weakened-and do so to a superlative degree hitherto unknown by the people who knew him most.

His 'Triumph of the Republic' (1881-1886), a vast quadriga for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, is perhaps more amazingly full of life than others of his works, all of which reveal this quality of vitality in superlative degree.

But his aspect and his words were of necromantic strangeness; they seemed to promise in a superlative degree the weirdness and bizarrerie which I had sought in former time, and of which, so far, I had found little hint in London.