inmost

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English inmost, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English innemest, a double superlative form from inne (“within”), from in (“in”). The modern form is due to confusion with most.

Adjective

inmost (not comparable)

1. The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost
   • 1905, Francis Lynde, A Fool for Love, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, page 25:

     Virginia Carteret was finding it a new and singular experience to have a man tell her baldly at their first meeting that he had read her inmost thought of him.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, …

Translations

innermost — see innermost

Noun

inmost (plural inmosts)

1. That which is innermost; the core.

References

• “inmost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• monist, omnist