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Inmost

Inmost \In"most`\, a. [OE. innemest, AS. innemest, a double superlative form fr. inne within, fr. in in. The modern form is due to confusion with most. See In, and cf. Aftermost, Foremost, Innermost.] Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.

And pierce the inmost center of the earth.
--Shak.

The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inmost

Old English innemest; see in + -most.

Wiktionary
inmost

a. The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost

WordNet
inmost
  1. adj. being deepest within the self; "one's innermost feelings" [syn: innermost]

  2. situated or occurring farthest within; "the innermost chamber" [syn: innermost]

Usage examples of "inmost".

She saw I knew her inmost secrets, and drawing me away she begged me to tell her who I was.

Her noble mind refused to shew any uneasiness, and I could not guess her inmost thoughts because I had no idea that she had anything to fear.

The mage told him, and at once he named a ship bound for the Inmost Sea aboard which Ged might go as passenger.

Standing by the graves of our loved and lost ones, our inmost souls yearn over the very dust in which their hallowed forms repose.

This command, laid upon me by the only woman who had complete authority over me, and whose orders I was accustomed to obey blindly, caused me to remember the vision, and to store it, with the seal of secrecy, in the inmost corner of my dawning memory.

I felt myself moved in the inmost recesses of my soul, and I almost thought that I had been wrong.

We put on our masks, left the inn, and after I had escorted them to their house I went home deeply in love, happy in my inmost soul, yet very sad.

For then, in the very innermost of his nature, and in the inmost of that innermost, perhaps there was just himself, just Hans Castorp, again and a hundred times Hans Castorp, with burning face and stiffening fingers, lying muffled on a balcony, with a view across the moonlit, frost-nighted high valley, and probing, with an interest both humanistic and medical, into the life of the body!

That late Jesuit, who in his inmost heart loved nothing but his own comfort, already advanced in years, and therefore no longer caring for the fair sex, was exactly the sort of man to please my simpleminded trio of friends.

Maybe, he thought, this reckless march was the aftermath of defeat, a kind of shocked reaction in which a man lashed out blindly, and this daft expedition under the half moon was undoubtedly blind, for Sharpe knew in his inmost soul that the unfinished business between himself and Brigadier Loup would almost cer tainly stay unfinished.

He was to painting what Baudelaire was to poetry - and Marceline was the key that had unlocked his inmost stronghold of genius.

Neither is there any need that we should understand their series, for the essences of particular mutable things are not to be gathered from their series or order of existence, which would furnish us with nothing beyond their extrinsic denominations, their relations, or, at most, their circumstances, all of which are very different from their inmost essence.

As I think, none saw me go, for, forgetful of their promised vengeance, the priests and priestesses were gathered trembling about the corpse of Rames in the inmost court of the Temple of Truth, though it is true that I felt the baleful eyes of Amenartas watching me.

He went to the Sea-House of Serd, where travellers and merchants ate together of good fare provided by the township, and might sleep in the long raftered hall: such is the hospitality of the thriving islands of the Inmost Sea.

So it passed over Geath and over Serd, and crossed the straits of the Inmost Sea, and came within sight of Roke.