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Definition of Best of all
1. Adverb. Especially fortunate. "Best of all, we don't have any homework!"
Definition of Best of all
1. Adjective. Superlative, the greatest of something ¹
2. Noun. Something superlative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Best Of All
Literary usage of Best of all
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This latter is the best of all his dramas and yet, correctly appreciated, it is
rather a powerful patriotic declamation than a piece of real scenic ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"He liked them best of all the flowers, and would have one often in his button-hole.^ We
found he intended the arpeggio passages in that composition as a ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"perhaps the best of all. " The Virginians," now publishing, though admirably
written, lacks interest of plot, and is proportionately unsuccessful. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"maxim of Say—a maxim which in the older treatises it was usual to call golden—'
that the very best of all plans of finance is to spend little, and the best ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1844)
"The best of all, the suitors proud to please; LIB. XIV. 110 There be eleven herds
of goats; of these — ', .-' The goat-keeper does ev'ry day one send, ..."
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