eximious

• There is that eximious infatuation with language, the sheer, lush love of the sound for the sound of it, sense be damned. —  Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor
• Oh, ye wigs, and eximious wig-blocks, called right-honorable! —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13
• His sensations, on entering this vast repository of arms, were not unlike those attributed to a personage whose fictitious adventures, though the production of a _Feringhi_ pen, present one of the most faithful pictures extant of the genuine feelings of an oriental on Frank matters: -- "When we came to the guns," says the eximious Hajji Baba, "by my beard, existence fled from our heads! —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
• Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. " —  languagehat.com
• ‘eximious’ (all in Hacket), ‘arride’ {50} (ridiculed by Ben Johnson), with the hundreds of other words like these, and even more monstrous than are some of these, not to speak of such Italian as ‘leggiadrous’ (a favourite word in Beaumont’s _Psyche_), ‘amorevolous’ (Hacket), had not been rejected and disallowed by the true instinct of the national mind. —  English Past and Present

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