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adjective

Utmost adj.

Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge. "We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France." "Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath."

Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness. "He shall answer... to his utmost peril." "Six or seven thousand is their utmost power."

noun

Utmost n. The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost. "We have tried the utmost of our friends."

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"Utmost" Quotes from Famous Books

... recover his nerve or breath, Orme rose, and preceded by Japhet, climbed up the bush-like rock till he reached the shaft of the sphinx's tail. Here he turned and waved his hand to us, then following the Mountaineer, walked, apparently with the utmost confidence, along the curves of the tail to where it sprang from the body of the idol. At this spot there was a little difficulty in climbing over the smooth slope of rock on to the broad terrace-like back. Soon, however, they surmounted it, and vanishing ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

... them with the utmost courtesy, and, in the interchange of these friendly offices, both Spaniards and natives became alike pleased with each other. The adventurers remained in this village for six days, finding abundant food for themselves and their horses, and experiencing, in the friendship ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

... at once," declared Nat, who was always Tavia's champion, to say nothing of his being her special friend and admirer. "I have known her to do risky things before, but this is the utmost." ...

— Dorothy Dale's Camping Days • Margaret Penrose

... assembly of the utmost dignity and importance. Like the Senate of ancient Rome, its awful gravity overpowers (or ought to overpower) barbarian visitors. It sits in the Capitol (we mean in the capital building erected for it), chiefly on Saturdays, and shakes the earth to its centre with the echoes ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... therefore, to be cheerful and happy; and fortunately his old habits enabled him to play his part well. Like them, he was a man of the woods, and as fond of hunting as any of them. They all soon became attached to him, and treated him with the utmost confidence. ...

— The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman • Uncle Philip

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