topmost

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From top +‎ -most.

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topmost (comparative more topmost, superlative most topmost)

  1. At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.
    • 1768, Mr. Yorick, A Sentimental Journey[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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?
    • 2015, Seth Giolle, The Cane Stories[4]:
      While he worked to ply fingers back apart more than not, Kaiselan practised his crouch exploring the outpost's more topmost levels.

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