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Meanings of superior degree in English

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Usage of superior degree in English
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This superior degree of envy is occasioned by three principal causes:
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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The possession of what is desirable, in a superior degree, is the cause of envy.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment.
The Devil's Dictionary
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Love, she has none, thou seest; nor ever had; at least not in a superior degree.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
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Difference of condition is an obstacle to knowledge; the inferior degree cannot comprehend the superior degree.
Bahá'í World Faith
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Either it is this, or the pioneer is possessed of a very superior degree of energy.
Minnesota and Dacotah
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All those things, with care and attention, will prove advantageous to Britain in a superior degree.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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Incest, therefore, being PERNICIOUS in a superior degree, has also a superior turpitude and moral deformity annexed to it.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
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We have every species of courage in France, and to a superior degree, except that of braving public opinion.
Other People's Money
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Indeed foresight, like insight, is common to all men: a superior degree of this common possession constitutes the prophet.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith / Being an Examination o...
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Next to the fashion, if not in an equal or superior degree, I think my grandmother most abhorred the French.
Personal Recollections / Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining t...
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Some superior degree of wit or subtlety is attributed to Euthydemus, who sees the trap in which Socrates catches Dionysodorus.
Euthydemus
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His court was formed on the model of Madrid, and displayed an equal and often superior degree of magnificence and state.
The Land We Live In / The Story of Our Country
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Is it to gratify an excess of national vanity, or create a superior degree of admiration in the mind of foreigners?
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
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Or, SECONDLY, That it runs into the other similar and correspondent views, and gives them a superior degree of force and vivacity.
A Treatise of Human Nature
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If a man reflects he will understand the spiritual significance of the law of progress; how all moves from the inferior to the superior degree.
Paris Talks
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