Definition of Nearliest

1. nearly [adv] - See also: nearly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nearliest

near thing
near vision
nearby
nearctic
neare
neared
nearer
nearest
nearest neighbor frequency
nearfield
nearfields
nearhand
nearing
nearish
nearlier
nearliest
nearly
nearly never bulled a cow
nearness
nearnesses
nears
nearshore
nearshores
nearside
nearsides
nearsighted
nearsightedly
nearsightedness
nearsightednesses
nearthrosis

Literary usage of Nearliest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the by Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge (1897)
"... of his having done the greatest Good he was capable to do, of his having best answered the ends of his Creation, and nearliest imitated the Perfections ..."

2. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"And for the church here, which is nearliest united unto you, what other use have you had of us, since the death of your wise and modest governors,20? in all ..."

3. The Pastor of the Pilgrims: A Biography of John Robinson by Walter Herbert Burgess (1920)
"There is a note of tiredness and disappointment in this letter at the bickerings which marked the Church " nearliest united " unto his own religious society ..."

4. Henry Barrow, Separatist (1550?-1593) and the Exiled Church of Amsterdam by Frederick James Powicke (1900)
"In this disgrace, the Leyden Church has shared—has, in fact, as the Church "nearliest united unto " them shared in it very largely. But for the last time! ..."

5. On English Adjectives in -able: With Special Reference to Reliable by Fitzedward Hall (1877)
"... to seek no further than to the next causes, and, particularly, in those wherein it is nearliest concerned ; and so, selling a judgment upon those alone, ..."

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