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Uttermost

noun
1.
The greatest possible degree.  Synonyms: level best, maximum, utmost.
adjective
1.
Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity.  Synonyms: extreme, utmost.  "Extreme caution" , "Extreme pleasure" , "Utmost contempt" , "To the utmost degree" , "In the uttermost distress"
2.
(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order.  Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost.  "Don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree" , "Explored the furthest reaches of space" , "The utmost tip of the peninsula"






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"Uttermost" Quotes from Famous Books



... finally fell upon the bridge. As they drew nearer they could hear nothing in the darkness but the thunder of the water. The bridge was a low one and only twenty yards up the stream from the falls; but though they strained their eyes to the uttermost they couldn't see as far as ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston

... or a brigand?" whispered Francisco, hurriedly, sounding the uttermost depths of his terror in ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte

... which sent the first English colonists to North America sent them also to Australia, to India and the uttermost parts of the earth. The same impulse drove the American colonists westward, northward, southward, in whatever direction they met no restraining force equal to their own expansive energy. It drove them to the Pacific, to the Rio Grande, to the Sault Ste. Marie; and it has driven ...
— The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations • H. Perry Robinson

... out of sight in the distance and is implored to appear running swiftly to the help of the sick man. Then the supplication changes to an assertion and the doctor declares that the Red Dog has already arrived to take the disease and has borne away a small portion of it to the uttermost ends of the earth. In the second, third, and fourth paragraphs the Blue Dog of the Frigid Land, the Black Dog of the Darkening Land, and the White Dog of W[/a]hal[)a] are successively invoked in the ...
— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney

... Canton, and am now hazarding another (not exactly a duplicate) to St. Helena. The first was full of unprobable romantic fictions, fitting the remoteness of the mission it goes upon; in the present I mean to confine myself nearer to truth as you come nearer home. A correspondence with the uttermost parts of the earth necessarily involves in it some heat of fancy; it sets the brain agoing; but I can think on the half-way house tranquilly. Your friends, then, are not all dead or grown forgetful of you through old age, as that lying letter asserted, ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


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