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:
“A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)