inmost
English
Etymology
From Middle English inmost, from Old English innemest, a double superlative form from inne (“within”), from in (“in”). The modern form is due to confusion with most.
Adjective
inmost (not comparable)
- The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost
- 1905, Francis Lynde, A Fool for Love, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, page 25:
- Virginia Carteret was finding it a new and singular experience to have a man tell her baldly at their first meeting that he had read her inmost thought of him.
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Translations
innermost — see innermost
References
- inmost in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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