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uttermost

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1. uttermost - Noun

2. uttermost - Adjective

3. uttermost - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end.

The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. Jack London

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. Joseph Conrad

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. Percival Lowell

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. George Santayana

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. Robertson Davies

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