Outermost
['aʊtəməʊst] or ['aʊtɚ'most]
Definition
(a.) Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row.
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Examples
- The outermost had the rim broadest, and the inner whorls were smaller and smaller, and had their rims narrower. Plato. The Republic.
- The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Among those first supplied was the banking firm of Drexel, Morgan & Company, corner of Broad and Wall streets, at the outermost limits of the system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His small stature was no hindrance to him--here he could see over the heads of the ladies who were seated near the outermost part of the bench. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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