Inmost
['ɪnməʊst] or ['ɪnmost]
Definition
(adj.) situated or occurring farthest within; 'the innermost chamber' .
(adj.) being deepest within the self; 'one's innermost feelings' .
Checked by Joy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.
Edited by Beverly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Innermost.
Checker: Ronnie
Definition
See Innermost.
Typist: Veronica
Examples
- I gnashed my teeth, and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In his inmost heart he was not sorry to put himself beyond the probability of meeting Miss Bart. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His yellow face turned to a more deadly colour when he saw the Captain, and he slunk back guiltily into the inmost parlour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, to judge my character and my standards of chivalry in that long-drawn, searching gaze. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I looked along them, and I saw down into his inmost heart. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Platonism is a very refined and beautiful expression of our natural instincts, it embodies conscience and utters our inmost hopes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I looked along the two rays of light, and I saw down into his inmost heart. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They opened each other's letters, even as, until now, the inmost fold of the heart of each was disclosed to the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I exclaimed, and then, suddenly realizing how he had echoed the inmost thought of my soul, I sat up in my chair and stared at him in blank amazement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her look at her father, half admiring him and proud of him, half ashamed for him, all devoted and loving, went to his inmost heart. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It seemed an endless time to Rosamond, in whose inmost soul there was hardly so much annoyance as gratification from what had just happened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His eyes seemed to reach my inmost soul through the thickening obscurity of the twilight. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And pray, madam, the reader may ask; how came you to be thus early acquainted with George Brummell's inmost soul? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Typist: Veronica