learnedest

Definitions

superlative form of learned: most learned

archaic, form-of, superlative

Examples

“IT is not any private reſpect of gain⟳, Gentle Reader, for the ſlighteſt Pamphlet is now adayes more vendible then the Works of learnedeſt men; but it is the love⟳ I have⟳ to our own⟳ Language that hath made me diligent to collect⟳, and ſet forth ſuch Peeces both in Proſe and Vers, as may renew the wonted honour and eſteem of our English tongue: and it’s the worth of theſe both Engliſh and Latin Poems, not the flouriſh of any prefixed encomions that can invite⟳ thee to buy⟳ them, though theſe are not without the higheſt Commendations and Applauſe of the learnedeſt Academicks, both domeſtick and forrein: […]”

“[…] while they mean⟳ while be at Eaſe to live⟳ in their Sins ſecure Whence, when all is well Examined, the Cauſe is plain, it is becauſe their deeds are evil, that with one Conſent they Reject⟳ this Light⟳: for it Checks the Wiſeſt of them all, and the Learnedeſt of them all in ſecret, it Reproves them; […]”

“Why, that’s the famous Doctor Samuel Johnson, who, they say⟳, is the greatest and learnedest man in England.”

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