topmost
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topmost (comparative more topmost, superlative most topmost)
- At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.
- 1768, Mr. Yorick, A Sentimental Journey, page 114:
- Well! well! [sic] cried I, as the coachman turn’d in at the gates, I find I shall do very well : and by the time he had wheel’d round the court, and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the better for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a victim to justice, who was to part with life upon the topmost, nor did I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do when I fly up, Eliza! to thee, to meet it.
- 1798, Thomas James Mathias, A Translation of the passages from Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Writers, quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature; A poem, in Four Dialogues, London T. Becket, page IX (60):
- When he has defended THE TRIPLE FORTRESS of Religion, Morality, and Literature, from it's[sic] foundation to the topmost battlements, must he be left on the field without the common honours of a common soldier?
- 1800, William Hurrell Mallock, The New Republic: Or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House, London Chatto and Windus, page 220:
- Does it narrow our notions of life's wonder and dignity to peer into the abyss of being, and learn something of the marvellous laws of things — to discover the same mysterious Something in a snow-flake, in the scent of a rose, in the topmost star of unascended heaven," and in some prayer or aspiration in the soul of man?
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at or nearest to the top
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Further reading
- “topmost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “topmost”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “topmost”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “topmost”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “topmost” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- “topmost”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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