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paragon
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synonyms: archetype, exemplar, touchstone, apotheosis, doyen, nonpareil, ne plus ultra, nonesuch ???
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Definition:an example of excellence or perfection to be emulated
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I get an itch to run off beyond the Sarmatians and the frozen sea,
every time those men who pretend to be old-time paragons of virtue
and live an orgy, dare to spout something about morals.
Juvenal. Satire II: Hipocrites are Intolerable.
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Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
William Shakespeare.Hamlet.
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The Cavaliere, indeed, as became a poet, paragoned her in his song to all the pagan goddesses of antiquity;
Edith Wharton. Crucial Instances: The Duchess at Prayer (1901)
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