nonesuch
\ NUHN-suhch \, noun;
1.a person or thing without equal; paragon.
Quotes:
Charles thinks her a nonesuch , since she is never weary of hearing him read aloud.
-- Amanda M. Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Washington , 1900
This is a deeply strange book. In fact, it is, to the best of my knowledge, a nonesuch : a 400-plus-page first novel by a 49-year-old American male, dedicated to the highly dubious proposition that such a thing as perfect romantic love is possible in these doomy, gloomy, over-psychologized, terminally ironic, post-humanist, post-postmodern times.
-- James Kaplan, "Reader, He Married Her," New York Times , February 24, 2008
Origin:
Nonesuch entered English in the mid-1500s. It is a portmanteau of the words none and such .
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