Superlative

//__Superlative __//

I.E.: BIG=adjective, BIGGER=comparative, BIGGEST= superlative
 * Definition:: ** In literature, grammar "superlative" describes a comparison of three or more items. As when using "most" or the suffix "-est". *



late 14c., from O.Fr. superlatif (13c.), from L.L. superlativus "exaggerated, superlative," from L. superlatus "exaggerated" (used as pp. of superferre "carry over or beyond")e.
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 * See also:: **
 * [Descriptives] [Comparatives]**

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 * Examples from text:: **

1) " Now an earthquake that is commanded by two gods has double the chance of fulfilment than when it is

willed by one, and an incalculably greater chance than when two gods are pulling different ways; as, to take

the case of older and greater gods, when the sun and the moon pull in the same direction we have the __biggest__

tides." - "**Chu-bu and Sheemish"** Lord Dunsany (//Book of Wonder//, 1912)

2) “Smart fellow, that,” observed Holmes, as we walked away. “He is, in my judgment, the fourth __smartest__

man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known something of

him before.” **- "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League"** Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (//The Strand Magazine//, 1891)

Definition from: Grammar Girl "Comparative versus Superlatives"- grammar.quickanddirtytips.com ---

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