especial

comparative more especial · superlative most especial · alternative obsolete especiall

1. Exceptional in importance or significance; special.

   an especial hatred of cats

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   Pay especial attention to chapter five.

   [...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.

   1941 July, “The Why and the Wherefore: Inner and Outer Distant Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 336

   Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]

   2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5

2. Particular.

   acting with no especial goal

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   Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270