superultimate
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superultimate (not comparable)
- (rare) Above and beyond what is usually ultimate; truly ultimate.
- 1951, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, The Research and Discovery Series[1], New Era Publications, page 76:
- The basic aberration is inability to control motion. Practically nobody controls motion to 100 percent of his capabilities. We don’t have to think in terms of vast and complex machines to see how this fits into industry. You take a janitor with a broom and send him down the aisle sweeping. You don’t have to have a person who can control the superultimate complexity of motion to have that janitor, but you would be surprised how many accidents he has if he is low on the tone scale. He will shove the handle of the broom through this and that and he will knock a template off here and there, and he just goes through the place.
- 1963, United States. Congress, Congressional Record[2], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 13639:
- This article is the superultimate in misrepresentation and inaccuracy.
- 1972, Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank, Journal Volumes 7-8[3], page 99:
- We can no longer speak glibly of revolution in an era when war could bring on the superultimate repression: death of the human race.
- 1997, Martin Gardner, Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games[4], The Mathematical Association of America, W. H. Freeman, page 286:
- The next setting is the Island of Baal, the only place on the earth where someone knows the answer to the superultimate metaphysical question: ‘“‘Why is there anything at all?’”’ The island is inhabited only by knights and knaves.
- 2003, Journal of Religious Studies, Volume 34[5], Department of Religious Studies, Punjabi University, page 90:
- The essence of these divinities is that of intermediaries between a being and a supreme superultimate Being.