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)
- 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)
- That which is innermost; the core.
References
- “inmost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.