a. Obs. rare. [f. L. superbus: see SUPERB and -OUS.] = SUPERBIOUS.

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1584.  Southerne, in Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxii. (Arb.), 259.

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1601.  W. Parry, Trav. Sir A. Sherley, 10. A most insolent superbous and insulting people.

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1652.  Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 156. The General made two superbous Triumphs of vanquisher and vanquished.

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1653.  A. Wilson, Jas. I., 251. A house of that Superbous and elegant Structure.

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1660.  F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 72. He esteemes himself very potent, and assumes very superbous and high Titles.

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1709.  Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1720), IV. 107. They … lodg’d him at a finer Palace, more superbous than the former.

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