Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Farthest within; innermost.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furthest within; remotest from the boundary, surface, or external part: as, the inmost recesses of a forest.
- Deepest; most interior or intimate; most real or vital.
- noun The most interior part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The
very deepest within ; farthest from the surface or external part;innermost
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being deepest within the self
- adjective situated or occurring farthest within
Etymologies
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Examples
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The holie of holies, that is, the inmost and holiest place of the Ievves Temple, as it vvere the Chauncel.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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It was plain that he loved them, that they came nearer to expressing his real -- that is, his inmost -- self.
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It was plain that he loved them, that they came nearer to expressing his real -- that is, his inmost -- self.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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The true temple stood separate, in the midst of these buildings, its interior being divided by a curtain into two parts, of which the inmost was the Holy of
Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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The outer is of the day, under the empire of mode; the outer passes away, in swift endless changes; the inmost is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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There are three things of which every man consists, and which follow in an orderly connection, -- the soul, the mind, and the body: his inmost is the soul, his middle is the mind, and his ultimate is the body.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Innocence and peace are the two inmost principles of heaven; they are called inmost principles, because they proceed immediately from the
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726
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The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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