Superquintessential
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or relating to superquintessence. not-comparable, rare
"Nobody understood him, he understood nobody, and though he got on excellently with the genial Buelow, his case became hopeless when Buelow made war for Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, a superquintessential bureaucrat, who could no more live without red tape than a geranium without red blossoms."
Example
More examples"Nobody understood him, he understood nobody, and though he got on excellently with the genial Buelow, his case became hopeless when Buelow made war for Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, a superquintessential bureaucrat, who could no more live without red tape than a geranium without red blossoms."
Etymology
From super- + quintessential.
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