peerless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English pereles, perles; equivalent to peer + -less.

  1. inherited from pereles

Definitions

  1. Without peer or equal

    Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.

    • Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
    • Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at peerless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at peerless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at peerless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA