Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Uttermost"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uttermost \Ut"ter*most`\, n.
The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest
extent. --Tennyson.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him. --Heb. vii.
25.
He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the
uttermost we can do, we must. --Hooker.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uttermost \Ut"ter*most\, a. [From {Utter}, a.; cf. {Utmost}, and
{Outermost}.]
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest
degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. ``In this uttermost
distress.'' --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
uttermost
adj 1: of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity;
"extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure";
"utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the
uttermost distress" [syn: {extreme}, {utmost(a)}, {uttermost(a)}]
2: comparatives of "far"; most remote in space or time or
order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go
beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored
the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the
peninsula" [syn: {farthermost}, {farthest}, {furthermost},
{furthest}, {utmost}]
n : the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost" [syn: {utmost},
{maximum}, {level best}]
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