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uttermost
/ˈʌtəɹmoʊst/
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What does uttermost mean?
adjective
- superlative form of utter: most utter; situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost.
- Extreme; utmost; of the farthest, greatest, or highest degree.
noun
- The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈʌtəɹmoʊst/
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The hymn of the earth is, "From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the Righteous."
Not even these well-contrived securities sufficed to save from the uttermost agonies of living inhumation, a wretch to these agonies foredoomed!
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He would fain have reclined in his chair and closed his eyes, and saturated himself with the uttermost fulness of the sensation.
So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,—so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,—that life’s uttermost woes fell from him unharming.
It gave to the “soul” that sense of contact with the inmost force, of perception of the uttermost purpose, which we always crave.