supersuperlative

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supersuperlative (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of super-superlative
    • 1845, Charles Cist, The Cincinnati Miscellany or Antiquities of the West: And Pioneer History and General and Local Statistics[1], C. Clark, Printer, page 101:
      Now, Cousin is an old maid, and a dreadful tidy woman. Like tidy women well enough, but can’t bear your dreadful tidy ones, because I am always in dread while on their premises, lest I should offend their supersuperlative neatness by a bit of gravel on the sole of my boot or such matter.
    • 1862, Samuel Smith Nicholas, Conservative Essays, Legal and Political[2], J.B. Lippincott & Company, page 138:
      A border State ratter, a former leader of the Democracy, now a leader of the ultra Abolitionists, openly advocates in the Senate a change of our Government into a Consolidated Democracy; yet no man of either party rebukes such supersuperlative folly.
    • 1955, The New Leader 1955-09-19: Volume 38, Issue 37[3], The New Leader, page 128:
      Hundreds of technicians went to work, a good part of Egypt’s population was hired, and vast areas of its territory were filled with the myriad activities of film-making in Hollywood’s grandest, supersuperlative manner.