Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inimitability.
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- noun The quality of being
inimitable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Limited_ -- if you don't believe what we say about N.W.P. inimitableness just open that book and see for yourself.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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He almost dragged her out of the room, though, as they passed through the hall, the servants only saw that he had given the lady his arm-and two of the younger footmen exchanged glances with each other which referred solely to the inimitableness of the cut of his evening overcoat.
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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If I read only three or four verses I am sure of their divinity on account of their inimitableness.
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But no natural object exists which does not involve in some part or parts of it this inimitableness, this mystery of quantity, which needs peculiarity of handling and trick of touch to express it completely.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Germans also, or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, which it will not have in the literatures where it is not native.
Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855
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