veriest
English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
veriest
- superlative form of very: most very; truest, most
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 52, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
- 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):
- If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.81:
- He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.
Translations
truest, most