Innermost
['ɪnəməʊst] or ['ɪnɚmost]
Definition
(a.) Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inmost.
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Examples
- Are you sure, John dear; are you absolutely certain in your innermost heart of hearts--? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She knew that Loerke, in his innermost soul, was detached from everything, for him there was neither heaven nor earth nor hell. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- New secrets of physiology may be revealed, deeply affecting human nature in its innermost recesses. Plato. The Republic.
- In the innermost corner the square outline of a van appeared, with its back towards him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was rather delicious, to feel her drawing his self-revelations from him, as from the very innermost dark marrow of his body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What I cannot describe is, how, in the innermost recesses of my own heart, I had a lurking jealousy even of Death. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Phelps thrust away the precious document into the innermost pocket of his coat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You are in the innermost sanctuary of the temple; I am one of the admiring concourse on the plain without. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- What I am describing, slumbered, and half awoke, and slept again, in the innermost recesses of my mind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In reply to Mr. Dipnall he would say that the compound penetrated right through into the innermost parts of the meat. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I shrank then--I shrink still--from invading the innermost sanctuary of her heart, and laying it open to others, as I have laid open my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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