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Definition of Inmost
1. Adjective. Being deepest within the self. "One's innermost feelings"
2. Adjective. Situated or occurring farthest within. "The innermost chamber"
Definition of Inmost
1. a. Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.
Definition of Inmost
1. Adjective. The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inmost
1. farthest within [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inmost
Literary usage of Inmost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by Theophilus Parsons (1845)
"In no man can the life which fills his inmost become absolutely one with his external
... The inmost of His life was not an influx from God ; it was Jehovah ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... nor utter their inmost thoughts in stage " asides," meant to be heard by the
back rows of a distant audience, though inaudible to the fellow-actors who ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Ev'n as a shoal of fish before a shark Huddle in fear, and crowd some harbourage
In to its inmost corners, for his mouth Gapes to engulf whatever he may ..."
4. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"Inly. Am. 162. Jealousy . . . that inly gnaws Eton. inmost. Beneath the obedient
river's inmost bed; ..."
5. Modern French Legal Philosophy by Alfred Fouillée, Alfred Jules Emile Fouillee (1916)
"The inmost Nature of Freedom. If the value of freedom and its relation to its
end remained thus vague for the Spiritualist school, it was because this ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"... inmost half- thought thoughts—altogether he is a writer to make a hero feel
very nervous indeed. Yet the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, ..."
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