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- adjective
superlative form ofuncommon : mostuncommon .
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Examples
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It was the commonest kind of a life this young Lincoln was living on the frontier of civilization, but out of that commonest kind of living came the uncommonest kind of character of these modern years, the sublimest liberative power in the history of freedom.
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The commonest thing is quite as strange as the uncommonest, only habit blunts our sense.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant, "and to break new ground is still one of the uncommonest and most heroic of the virtues.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant, "and to break new ground is still one of the uncommonest and most heroic of the virtues.
Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878
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