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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
nonesuch .
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- noun See
nonesuch .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
nonesuch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
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Examples
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November Index-Fu Rogers 2006
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Special sale for nonsuch account area6 1-60 levelrabbi, warrior or magiciansell sincerely!
November Index-Fu Rogers 2006
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If this crazy, nonsuch wedding hadn't sent us packing 10,000 miles with our toddler, it's shameful what we would have missed.
yes, my gourd 2006
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Then you are, as indeed I have always thought you, a nonsuch of a woman.
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If this crazy, nonsuch wedding hadn't sent us packing 10,000 miles with our toddler, it's shameful what we would have missed.
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On every average page of Shakespeare you are greeted and gladdened by at least five words that you never saw before in his writings, and that you never will see again, speaking once and then for ever holding their peace -- each not only rare, but a nonsuch -- five gems just shown, then snatched away.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for a lock of his hair, just to keep beside him for a keepsake; (did any body ever hear such nonsense?)
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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That he has that loveliness in him which is not to be found in any other: He is the chief among ten thousand, a nonsuch for beauty, fairer than the children of men, than any of them, than all of them; there is none like him, nor any to be compared with him; every thing else is to be accounted loss and dung in comparison of him, Phil. iii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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He is a nonsuch for prudence: There is none so discreet and wise as thou art, v. 39.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
chained_bear commented on the word nonsuch
Huh. I thought this was misspelled (I copied it directly), but there's a WordNET definition or two. Huh.
September 6, 2008