Definitions
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- adj. superlative form of mute: most mute.
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Examples
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She and Pokier hardly talked this time: it was their mutest holiday together.
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The towers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the rigging of the ships that lay in the Basin, wrought like phantoms among the shrouds; the gondolas stole in and out of the opaque distance, more noiselessly and dreamily than ever; and a silence almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world.
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Thus she came to be pictured crowned with heron plumes, the symbol of silence -- the silence of the lonely marshes where the heron stands in mutest contemplation -- a tall, very stately, very queenly, wholly beautiful woman, with a bunch of keys at her girdle -- symbol of her protection of the Northern housewife -- sometimes clad in snow-white robes, sometimes in robes of sombre black.
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Lucretius that the King again repeated: there was a hidden destiny that tamed the shows of the great; and she was the mutest of that throng that upon white horses, all with little flags flying and horns blowing, cantered to see the yeomen shoot.
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The towers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the rigging of the ships that lay in the Basin wrought like phantoms among the shrouds; the gondolas stole in and out of the opaque distance more noiselessly and dreamily than ever; and a silence, almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world.
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He glanced his eye to the candle stand, and took his seat in the circle as mute as the mutest.
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
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God, who first mutest it, enable me to get the mastery of!
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On these occasions my friend would listen to me with the mutest attention.
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730: That from my mutest Conscience, to my tongue,
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