Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a surpassing manner; extremely.
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- adverb In a
surpassing manner;exceptionally .
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- adverb to a surpassing degree
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Examples
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No matter how serious the conservative crisis is, liberals remain surpassingly effective at making themselves unelectable.
December 2005 2005
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Gopnik greatly admires Lincoln, whom he describes as surpassingly pragmatic and shrewd.
Blog updates 2009
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In the Sondheim medley she invariably dispenses and features Leonard Bernstein's "Gee, Officer Krupke," she sang "Did a Parade Pass By?" and the surpassingly strong "With So Little to Be Sure Of."
David Finkle: First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room David Finkle 2011
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If, as Featherstone insists, this surpassingly irrelevant form of discrimination still sends out a "potent message to people in this country and beyond" that is more unfortunate than, say, Kate waiting to be proposed to for 10 years, any reform is likely be drowned out, as soon as Charles can do more than scrawl numberless letters, by a much louder broadcast about the exercise of unaccountable power in our recently modernised kingdom.
Royal succession is a feminist issue. Or so the men say | Catherine Bennett 2011
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As a failed Harry Potter scholar, I must have missed, in my Muggling way, countless intricacies of the surpassingly convoluted plots.
Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale Joe Morgenstern 2011
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In the Sondheim medley she invariably dispenses and features Leonard Bernstein's "Gee, Officer Krupke," she sang "Did a Parade Pass By?" and the surpassingly strong "With So Little to Be Sure Of."
David Finkle: First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room David Finkle 2011
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In the light of American history, this passivity was surpassingly odd.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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And yet with action films, the moral and political ideas in play are surpassingly easy to spot.
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In the light of American history, this passivity was surpassingly odd.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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Tickets for Danny Boyle's compelling, justifiably acclaimed production of Frankenstein, which boasts yet more teen favourites in the shape of Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, are not just surpassingly rare when they are not being touted at more than four times their face value, but officially discouraged for younger enthusiasts, this Frankenstein being described as "suitable only for 15+".
Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage | Catherine Bennett 2011
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