The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
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Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would any one wish to see these remains tricked out in the sprucest, or even the richest, modern habiliments?
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine— The 'Art of Cookery,' and mine, My Murray.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
But Mr. Hugh Wenlock was on deck in the sprucest of his apparel, and was visibly anxious and fidgety, as befitted a man who shortly expected to enter into the bonds of matrimony.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
