uttermore

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English

Etymology

Through folk etymology from analogy with uttermost, as though from utter +‎ more.

Adjective

uttermore (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) further; outer; utter.
    • 1637, William Camden, Britain [] :
      The two Pyramides in the middest whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another: the uttermore stand not farre off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides

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