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  • adjective Unrivaled, lacking rivals.

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Examples

  • They do not, for your oyster is ever humble even when tenanted with a rivalless pearl.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • They have with them an unutterable glory of conscious power, the magnificence of a perfect, God-given nature, such a haughty spirit of rivalless dominion as might have swelled the soul of a Jewish queen, monarch of Israel, ruler of God's chosen people in the day of their unbroken pride, when she felt that none greater than herself dwelt upon the globe.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • As matched well, and rivalless for gallantry and force

    Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906

  • They do not, for your oyster is ever humble even when tenanted with a rivalless pearl.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Mrs. Eddy, with an envious and admiring eye upon the solitary and rivalless and world-shadowing majesty of St. Peter's, reveals in her

    Christian Science Mark Twain 1872

  • As matched well, and rivalless for gallantry and force;

    Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

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