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Inner   /ˈɪnər/   Listen
Inner

adjective
1.
Located inward.  Synonyms: interior, internal.  "She thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it" , "An internal sense of rightousness"
2.
Located or occurring within or closer to a center.
3.
Innermost or essential.  Synonyms: internal, intimate.  "The internal contradictions of the theory" , "The intimate structure of matter"
4.
Confined to an exclusive group.  Synonyms: inside, privileged.  "Inside information" , "Privileged information"
5.
Exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence.  "Inner circles of government"
6.
Inside or closer to the inside of the body.



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"Inner" Quotes from Famous Books



... reverie about nothing by a dark-brown shape, who replaces the clogs, puts his arm around our waist and leads us into an inner hall, with a steaming tank in the centre. Here he slips us off the brink, and we collapse over head and ears in the fiery fluid. Once—twice—we dip into the delicious heat, and then are led into a marble ...
— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor
... delightful fiction (a manifestation of Vaihinger's omnipotent "als ob") to transform this inner impulse into a ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis
... sacred bard to raise his thoughts into the realm of the ideal. His religion was cold and formal. Consisting partly of minute and tedious ceremonies, partly of transparent allegories whereby the abstractions of daily life were clothed with the names of gods, it possessed no power over his inner being. Conceptions such as Sowing (Saturnus), War (Bellona), Boundary (Terminus), Faithfulness (Fides), much as they might influence the moral and social feelings, could not be expanded into material for poetical inventions. And these and ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell
... outer ward, and the inner ward. William Rufus erected the keep, which was at first the only building on the site, and this was enclosed by a wall on the north and east. A triangular ward was thus formed, having its entrance at the south-east. Carlisle was fortified ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle - A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See • C. King Eley
... to let me know wot's goin' on in me childhood's home," remarked the humorist plaintively; "and yer's this dod-blasted gov'ment mule of a postmaster keepin' me letters back!" Letters with pretentious and gilded coats of arms, taken from the decorated inner lining of cigar-boxes, were posted to prominent citizens. The neighboring and unregenerated settlement of Red Dog was more outrageous in its contribution. The Red Dog "Sentinel," in commenting on the death of "Haulbowline Tom," a drunken English man-o'-war's man, ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte


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