Adjective

(er)

First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately.

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(lb) Haughty.

*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):

*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.

Adjective

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Situated at the most distant limit; farthest

* Evelyn

We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.

* Herbert

Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.

The most extreme; ultimate; greatest

* (William Shakespeare)

He shall answerto his utmost peril.

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* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.