Comparative - Absolute Comparative

Absolute Comparative

A number of fixed expressions use a comparative form where no comparison is being asserted, such as higher education or younger generation.

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Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or comparative:

    “We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to- date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)