Incomparableness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incomparable \In*com"pa*ra*ble\, a. [L. incomparabilis: cf. F.
     incomparable. See {In-} not, and {Comparable}.]
     Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others;
     unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless;
     peerless; transcendent.
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           A merchant of incomparable wealth.       --Shak.
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           A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir
           Isaac Newton for a patron.               --Bp.
                                                    Warburton.
     -- {In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*com"pa*ra*bly}, adv.
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           Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. --Bp.
                                                    Wilkins.
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