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yondermost

yondermost adjective: furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate.

Adjective

yondermost (not comparable)

  1. Furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate
    • […] and resignation of himself to him, to be saved and guided by him, on his own terms, and in his own way, as the other, doth ; yet I say still, he hath not “precisely told us, what is the very yondermost step that the hypocrite may go, […]1777, James Durham, The Law Unsealed
    • ("I will sing the yondermost realms conterminous with the gliding world, which lie broadly open to spirits, which render to each the reward of his merits);" […]1853, Dante Alighieri, Dante's Divine comedy

Noun

yondermost (uncountable)

  1. The utmost; ultimate
    • But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were sitting every one under his vine and fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a league and covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged it my duty to oppose to the...1833, original 1650, Butler Leighton, Transaction of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 222
    • Of this aspect of Buddhism, as citpresscd in the Saint Nipate, Nietzsche was aware: "When man, confined by views, holds in the world / A thing in worth and as the yondermost, / Then doth he say all else is lacking worth, / And hence he hath not passed beyond disputes."2011, Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism

Origin of yondermost

From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.

Questions about yondermost

What does yondermost mean?
Yondermost means furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate.
What part of speech is yondermost?
Yondermost can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near yondermost in the dictionary

  1. yoncopin
  2. yoncopins
  3. yond
  4. yonder
  5. yonderly
  6. yondermost
  7. yonderness
  8. yonders
  9. Yoneda
  10. Yoneda embedding
  11. Yoneda embeddings

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