Topmost
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest. not-comparable
"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."
- 1 at or nearest to the top wordnet
Example
More examples"To such vain quest he cared not to reply, / but, heaving from his breast a deep-drawn sigh, / "Fly, Goddess-born! and get thee from the fire! / The foes", he said, "are on the ramparts. Fly! / All Troy is tumbling from her topmost spire. / No more can Priam's land, nor Priam's self require.""
Etymology
From top + -most.
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