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Nonpareil vs Sublime - What's the difference?

nonpareil | sublime |

As an adjective nonpareil

is unequalled, unrivalled; unique.

As a noun nonpareil

is a person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.

As a verb sublime is

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nonpareil

English

(wikipedia nonpareil)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.
  • * 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 33:
    • A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast […].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
  • * c.1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), Twelfth Night; or, What You Will ,
    • My lord and master loves you. O, such love / Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd / The nonpareil of beauty!
  • * , III.2.2.ii:
    • King John of France, once prisoner in England, came […] to see the Countess of Salisbury, the nonpareil of those times, and his dear mistress.
  • A small pellet of colored sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
  • A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
  • (obsolete, printing) A type size between minion and agate or ruby (roughly 6pt); nonpareille.
  • * 1881 May 19, Hermann Cohn, ,
    • I believe that letters which are less than a millimetre and a half (1/17 inch) high, will finally prove injurious to the eye. How little attention has hitherto been paid to this important subject is exemplified in the fact that even oculistic journals and books frequently contain nonpareil , or letters only a millimetre (1/25 inch) high.

    See also

    * (Nonpareils) *

    Synonyms

    * (pellet of colored sugar) * hundreds and thousands ((UK), Australian'', ''plural only ) * sprinkles (probably US'', ''plural only )

    sublime

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (sublim)
  • (chemistry, physics) To sublimate.
  • To raise on high.
  • * E. P. Whipple
    • A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
  • To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The sun / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes , / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.
  • To dignify; to ennoble.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
    Related terms
    * sublimation

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Noble and majestic.
  • * De Quincey
    • the sublime Julian leader
  • Impressive and awe-inspiring.
    • sublime''' scenery; a '''sublime deed
  • * Prior
    • Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime .
  • * Longfellow
    • Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.
  • (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
  • * Dryden
    • Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
  • (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
  • * Milton
    • Their hearts were jocund and sublime , / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
  • Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
  • * Spenser
    • countenance sublime and insolent
  • * Milton
    • His fair, large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something sublime.

    • Anagrams

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