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  • adjective superlative form of intense: most intense.

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Examples

  • What is real to him is the underlying consciousness which according to his view is permanent: the "intensest" self described in

    A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

  • In the bottom of the canyon lay a wandering sheet of water of intensest blue.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • "Goin 'up, goin' up," Billy chortled, as they drove on through the winding hills past another lake of intensest blue.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • Consequently there is one male in all the world whose organism is most nearly the complement of hers; one male for whom she will feel the greatest, intensest, and most vital need; one male who of all males is the fittest, organically, to be the father of her children.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • I did what I knew she liked, and as ever my own intensest pleasure came in pleasing her.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • If the The Slaves of Solitude (1947) is arguably Hamilton's most formally and emotionally satisfying novel, it's partly because its setting ( "intense war, intense winter, and intensest black-out in the month of December") enables him to give a deeper sense of a claustrophobic milieu, and partly because its heroine, Miss Roach, is the most sympathetic, resourceful, and complex of Hamilton's creations.

    Giddy & Malevolent Prose, Francine 2008

  • The old man, intoxicated with superhuman enjoyment, and believing himself happy, had just received a cold shower-bath on his passion at the moment when it had risen to the intensest white heat.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage.

    Domestic Peace 2007

  • “Balzac” with intensest pleasure, and I am looking forward to more Shakespeare — you will of course put all your

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage.

    Domestic Peace 2007

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