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• "more/most/very unique"

  (Usage Disputes)
  
  

  
     Fowler and other conservatives urge restricting the meaning
  of "unique" to "having no like or equal".  (OED says "in this sense,
  readopted from French at the end of the 18th Century and regarded as
  a foreign word down to the middle of the 19th.")  Used in this
  sense, it is an incomparable:  either something is "unique" or it
  isn't, and there can be no degrees of uniqueness.  Those who use
  phrases like "more unique", "most unique", and "very unique"
  are using "unique" in the weaker sense of "unusual, distinctive".

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Usage Disputes: "more/most/very unique"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 2090), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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