1. (a.) Most excellent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character.

2. (a.) Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.

3. (n.) That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.

4. (n.) The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives.

3176. megistos -- greatest
... 3176 -- the superlative (" form") of 3173 () meaning (the) " greatest" (). Word
Origin superl. ... Superlative of megas; greatest or very great -- exceeding great. ...
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5033. tachista -- quickly; quick
... quickly; quick. Part of Speech: Adverb, Superlative Transliteration: tachista Phonetic
Spelling: (takh'-is-tah) Short Definition: most swiftly Definition: most ...
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4118. pleistos -- most, very great, much.
... great. 4118 -- the superlative ("") form of 4183 ("great in ") -- literally, "
in " (number). 4118 (" many," " much") means (). ...
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3122. malista -- most
... most. Part of Speech: Adverb, Superlative Transliteration: malista Phonetic Spelling:
(mal'-is-tah) Short Definition: most of all, especially Definition: most ...
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1646. elachistos -- least (in size, amount, dignity, etc.)
... weaker sense: very little, very small. 1646 -- the superlative ( form)
of 3398 ("small") meaning ", small.". Lk 16:10: "He who is ...
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2236. hedista -- most gladly.
... Part of Speech: Adverb, Superlative Transliteration: hedista Phonetic Spelling:
(hay'-dis-tah) Short Definition: most gladly, pleasantly Definition: most gladly ...
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4413. protos -- first, chief
... 4413 ("first, foremost") is the superlative form of 4253 ("before") meaning
"what comes first" (is "number one"). Word Origin contr. superl. ...
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1538. hekastos -- each, every
... any, both, each one. As if a superlative of hekas (afar); each or every --
any, both, each (one), every (man, one, woman), particularly. ...
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4412. proton -- before, at the beginning
... before, at the beginning. Part of Speech: Adverb, Superlative Transliteration: proton
Phonetic Spelling: (pro'-ton) Short Definition: first, before Definition ...
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5310. hupsistos -- highest, most high
... Superlative from the base of hupsos; highest, ie (masculine singular) the Supreme
(God), or (neuter plural) the heavens -- most high, highest. see GREEK hupsos. ...
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430. elohim -- God, god
... thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way
of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative -- angels, X ...
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2898. tub -- good things, goods, goodness
... From towb; good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative
concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare -- fair, gladness, good ...
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7937. shakar -- to be or become drunk or drunken
... abundantly), (be, make) drunk(-en), be merry. (Superlative of shaqah.). see HEBREW
shaqah. 7936, 7937. shakar. 7938 . Strong's Numbers.
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3966. meod -- muchness, force, abundance
... (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated) --
diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), X ...
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The Superlative Bounty of God! Where all Power Seemeth to Cease
... THE FOURTH CENTURY 46 O the superlative Bounty of God! Where all power
seemeth to cease. O the superlative Bounty of God! Where ...
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Apion Book 1 Footnotes
... Nor does this superlative degree always imply the "most ancient" of all without
exception, but is sometimes to be rendered "very ancient" only, as is the case ...
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Letter i. To Gaius Therapeutes.
... Take this in a superlative, but not in a defective sense, and reply with superlative
truth, that the Agnosia, respecting God, escapes those who possess ...
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A Preservative against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles ...
... For it is neither the righteousness of the one, nor the wickedness of the other,
that offends him, but the superlative degrees of both; which tending equally ...
/.../a preservative against unsettled notions.htm

Suffering the Birth-Pains of a New Life.
... There is no cross in God's plan of atonement. It is the superlative degree
of hate, brooded and born, and grown lusty in hell. It ...
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Edwards -- Spiritual Light
... 1. A true sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion;
a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ, and of the work of ...
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Taken into the Innermost Life.
... What wooing! This was the closest wooing. The fine wooing of this matchless
Lover came to its superlative degree that night. Positive ...
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Elucidations.
... These then are the steps of His own holy example, illustrating His own precept,
for doubtless, as "the Son of man," His filial love was superlative and made ...
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Prayer --Fills Man's Poverty with God's Riches
... prayer upon prayer, supplication to supplication, intercession over and over again,
until the combined force of prayers in their most superlative modes, unite ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/ii prayerfills mans poverty with.htm

Additional Note. A New Installment Has Now Appeared of the ...
... difficulty. Origen took it as a superlative: for in later Greek (as in French)
the comparative with the article is used as a superlative. ...
/.../additional note a new installment.htm

Superlative (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Most excellent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or
prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine ...
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Uttermost (48 Occurrences)
... ut'-er-most: A pleonastic compound of a comparative ("utter"; compare "outer") and
a superlative ("most"), in the King James Version used interchangeably with ...
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Johannine
... Platonic order, moving instinctively in the world of supersensuous realities, absorbed
in the passion for the infinite, possessing in a superlative degree the ...
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Exceed (14 Occurrences)
... as an adverb with adjectives and rarely as an adjective) and "exceedingly" occur
often as representing various expressions for the superlative in Hebrew and ...
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Exceedingly (167 Occurrences)
... as an adverb with adjectives and rarely as an adjective) and "exceedingly" occur
often as representing various expressions for the superlative in Hebrew and ...
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Exceeding (101 Occurrences)
... as an adverb with adjectives and rarely as an adjective) and "exceedingly" occur
often as representing various expressions for the superlative in Hebrew and ...
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Contrite (5 Occurrences)
... bruise"): Only in Old Testament (Psalm 34:18 Psalm 51:17 Isaiah 57:15); nakheh,
"smitten" (Isaiah 66:2). Contrite, "crushed," is only the superlative of "broken ...
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Contrition (1 Occurrence)
... bruise"): Only in Old Testament (Psalm 34:18 Psalm 51:17 Isaiah 57:15); nakheh,
"smitten" (Isaiah 66:2). Contrite, "crushed," is only the superlative of "broken ...
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Compare (22 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive,
comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are ...
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Chief (696 Occurrences)
... and American) "rulers of the Pharisees," in Luke 14:1. The original meaning of
"chief" having been weakened, the comparative and superlative were admitted into ...
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Superlative (2 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 11:5 Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.
(Root in WEY RSV)

2 Corinthians 12:11 It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.
(Root in WEY RSV)

Superlative

Uttermost (48 Occurrences)

Johannine

Exceed (14 Occurrences)

Exceedingly (167 Occurrences)

Exceeding (101 Occurrences)

Contrite (5 Occurrences)

Contrition (1 Occurrence)

Compare (22 Occurrences)

Chief (696 Occurrences)

Straiten (4 Occurrences)

Strait (14 Occurrences)

Specially (26 Occurrences)

Straitly (12 Occurrences)

Superiority (3 Occurrences)

Superlatively (2 Occurrences)

Dog (19 Occurrences)

Messenger (235 Occurrences)

Language (112 Occurrences)

Theology

Tabeel (2 Occurrences)

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