uttermore

Adjective

utter (comparative (obsolete) uttermore, superlative utmost or uttermost)

1. To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total, unconditional.
   • utter bliss utter darkness utter ruin

   Synonyms:

   utmost, uttermost, crass, abject, frightful, absolute, prize, clean, arrant, categoric

2. (rare) Of a substance: pure, unmixed.
   • Two cups of utter silver wrought and rough with imagery / I give you, which my father took from wracked Arisbe's hold; […]1876, Virgil, “Book IX”, in William Morris, transl., The Æneids of Virgil: Done into English Verse, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 254, lines 262–263

   Synonyms:

   unalloyed, unprocessed, raw, coarse, crude, natural, pure, pristine, unmixed, unrefined

3. Of decisions, replies, etc.: made in an unconditional or unqualified manner; decisive, definite.
   • There could not then be any other eſtimate made of the loſs VValler ſuſtain'd, than by the not purſuing the viſible advantage he had, and by the utter refuſal of the Auxiliary Regiments of London and Kent, to march farther; […]1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, book VIII, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the...
4. (obsolete, poetic, except literary) Further out than another thing; being the exterior or outer part of something; outer, outward; also, extremely remote.
   • at the utter extremities of

   Antonyms:

   inner

5. (obsolete, rare) Preceding all others; original.
   • And although it [Persia] has ſince then been ruined and reigned ouer by Princes of many Nations, yet they haue neuer altered the Dialect from its vtter ſence, at this day being cald Pharſee: […]1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Discourse of the Life and Habit of the Persians at this Present”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […]...
6. (obsolete, rare) Succeeding all others; final, last, ultimate.
   • Our vtter houre is come alas, fell deſtinies death hath brought.1555 July (date written; Gregorian calendar), Virgil, “The Seconde Booke”, in Thomas Phaer, transl., The Seuen First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgill, Conuerted in Englishe Meter […], London: […]...

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