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"Ha! ha! do you really think so, Sir?" said the mother, evidently gratified with the superlativeness of the compliment.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

The Arab women of the Upper Nile occupy about three days in dressing their hair; they never imitate other tribes, “but simply vie with each other in the superlativeness of their own style.”

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles

It might be the very superlativeness of the man's temerity that disarmed her, paralyzing the hot will.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

The Arab women of the Upper Nile occupy about three days in dressing their hair; they never imitate other tribes, "but simply vie with each other in the superlativeness of their own style."

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

This double-barrelled superlativeness shows that the spirit of the people was by no means cast down by the fruitless struggle of five years.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various