Adjective: how came you so
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more how came you so |
| Superlative | most how came you so |
Sample Sentences
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A very little man, very 'how came you so,' / Went home on a dingy night; / It was past twelve o'clock, he'd a long way to go, / And he walk'd like a crab, left and right. [1850, William Mark Clark, Clark's Orphean Warbler, page 258:]
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Wine took a large part in the Egyptian ritual, […] and in private life women were not restricted in its use. In fact, the ungallant Egyptians have left behind them several delineations of ladies in a decided state of "how came you so?" [1892, James Mew, John Ashton, Drinks of the World, volume 1, page 16:]
Adjectives inflected like how came you so
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology