incomparably, adv.
(ɪnˈkɒmpərəblɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2; cf. F. incomparablement (12–13th c.), L. incomparābiliter.]
In an incomparable manner or degree; in a way that does not admit of comparison; beyond comparison.
| c 1422 Hoccleve Learn to Die 257 Goostly lucres & wynnynges..Exceedynge in value all eerthly thynges Inconparablely. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1263 Hire bemes ouer alle the sternes ere incomparabli bright. 1531 Elyot Gov. i. xxvii, Shootinge in the longe bowe..incomparably excelleth all other exercise. 1634 Heywood Maidenhead iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 131 Does not the new Gowne the Prince sent my Mistresse, become her most incomparably? 1666 Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1674) 14 The structure even of the rarest watch is incomparably inferiour to that of a humane body. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 419 ¶7 Shakespear has incomparably excelled all others. 1855 Emerson in Scot. Rev. (1883) 283 Incomparable things said incomparably well. 1870 Rogers Hist. Gleanings Ser. ii. 115 Strafford..was incomparably the abler of the two. |