Superlatives are claims to the highest, fastest, largest, oldest etc.

We have had a joke for many years about a Bronze Buddha.  If you define the group sharply enough anything is the best at something.  I am “Pasadena’s oldest man born in Coventry, England who had a factory in Mexico.

On our recent trip to Israel we noticed that most superlatives about spiritual things don’t work with the “est” suffix.  You have to use “most”.  For instance “most spiritual” is correct not “spiritualest”.  “Jewishest” is wrong “most Jewish” is right.

By the way who is the worlds most spiritual man? Hint: see picture above.