leftest
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]leftest
- superlative form of left: most left
- 1966, Discourse; a review of the liberal arts, volume 9, page 219:
- A writer may, in only one work, take a strong position on socialized medicine, and he is immediately stacked on the shelf with the leftest writers.
Verb
[edit]leftest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of leave
- 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:, "Prayers for Several Occasions"
- For when man sinned, and listened to the whispers of a tempting spirit, and refused to hear the voice of God, thou didst throw him out from paradise, and sentest him to till the earth; but yet leftest not his condition without remedy […]