Crossword clues for innermost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innermost \In"ner*most`\ ([i^]n"n[~e]r*m[=o]st`), a. [A
corruption of inmost due to influence of inner. See
Inmost.]
Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost;
deepest within.
--Prov. xviii. 8.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from inner + -most. Innermore also existed in Middle English.
Wiktionary
a. Farthest inside or towards the center or middle.
WordNet
Usage examples of "innermost".
I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors--heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.
Avars, the outer one enclosing the entire realm of Hungary, the inner ones growing successively smaller, the innermost being the central fortification within which dwelt the Chagan, with his palace and his treasures.
Lizbeth, Versace all the way, wished to share her innermost feelings with Cig as they drove through the emerald rolling hills of central Virginia.
Betsey had been very nice to Amanda, and they were cafeteria buddies, but Amanda shied away from most gatherings, particularly gabfests where everyone was expected to reveal their innermost secrets.
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!
Dodd smiled as the Killadar ran, then turned and walked towards Hakeswill who was posted in the bastion above the innermost gate.
Dodd smiled as the Killadar ran, then turned and walked toward Hakeswill who was posted in the bastion above the innermost gate.
Somehow, Pham Trinli had known a secret about the localizers that had been missing from the innermost sections of the fleet library.
When the puppetry had palled and no reason but pride was left to hold him in France, the innermost door, long forced by Thady Boy, had opened to him also.
Syrinx and her siblings suited up and walked out onto the innermost ledge of the northern endcap, progressing with long lopes in the quarter gravity.
Aramis, still playing with his knife, fixed a look upon Vanel which seemed as if he wished to penetrate to the innermost recesses of his heart.
Once more their passes were checked and now they were escorted with their flare-carrying porters through the donjon main gate, along a passage that meandered, mazelike, between high, battlemented stone walls to the next gate that led to the moat and the innermost wooden bridge.
Fenellan eyed benevolently the worthy attorney, whose innermost imp burst out periodically, like a Dutch clocksentry, to trot on his own small grounds for thinking himself of the community of the man of the world.
As they fled toward the orbits of the innermost moons, she saw Robb Brindle and his last four Remoras struggling upward from the fringe of atmosphere, heading toward them.
The ground enclosed by the innermost Stockade lies in the form of a parallelogram, the larger diameter running almost due north and south.