Paralleled
['pærə,leld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Parallel
Editor: Martin
Examples
- They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The perplexity of medicine is paralleled by the perplexity of law; in which, again, Plato would have men follow the golden rule of simplicity. Plato. The Republic.
- The suddenness of an orphan's rise in the market was not to be paralleled by the maddest records of the Stock Exchange. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Martin