Touchstone vs Paragon - What's the difference?
touchstone | paragon |
A stone used to test the quality of gold alloys.
A standard of comparison or evaluation.
* South
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 nouns the difference between touchstone and paragon
is that touchstone is a stone used to test the quality of gold alloys while paragon is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.As a verb paragon is
to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.touchstone
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Noun
- The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.
paragon
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(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
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(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.
