Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Extreme; being in the furthest, greatest, or highest degree; utmost.
- n. The extreme limit; the utmost; the highest, greatest, or furthest; the utmost power or extent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree.
- n. The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree.
- n. The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order
- n. the greatest possible degree
- adj. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
Etymologies
- Middle English : utter, outer; see utter2 + -most, -most.
Examples
“But then one day in uttermost space thousands of innocents are killed — victims of a military error — and the deadly balance is upset.”
“What the tribesman resents to the uttermost is not the administration of law, but the attempt to force on him laws to which he has never assented.”
“You do not deny yourself; you believe that self-assertion to the uttermost is the prime duty. ”
“I'm a Gabonese citizen and I'm demanding elections in the uttermost respect of the constitution of the Republic!!! and I'm saying no to those that are calling for France to meddle in Gabonese politics, in particular Ben Mouamba whom we don't know and who could be a pawn of France!”
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“They knew to the uttermost farthing the value of Love.”
“The teams spread out on the smooth surface, each straining to the uttermost.”
“Cocky knew danger at the first glimpse -- danger to the uttermost of violent death.”
“I found that they hailed from the uttermost parts of the earth.”
“She knew only that it was sin, and she lifted her head proudly, recklessly resolved, in one great surge of revolt, to sin to the uttermost.”
“Iron men like the two mates are very respectful of "Cape Stiff," as they call that uttermost tip of the American continent.”
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