Consummate vs Paragon - What's the difference?
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Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
* 1900 , ",
* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
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(obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) Comparison; competition.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
(typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.
To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
To compare with; to equal; to rival.
* Glover
To serve as a model for; to surpass.
* Shakespeare
To be equal; to hold comparison.
As verbs the difference between consummate and paragon
is that consummate is to bring (a task, project, goal etc) to completion; to accomplish while paragon is to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.As an adjective consummate
is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a noun paragon is
a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.consummate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
Synonyms
* (bring to completion) complete, finish, round offDerived terms
* consummation * consummative * consummator * consummatoryExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----paragon
English
(wikipedia paragon)Noun
(en noun)- In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
- Man, the paragon of animals!
- The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
- Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
- (Spenser)
- good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Spenser)
- In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.