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innermost

[ in-er-mohstor, especially British, -muhst ]

adjective

  1. farthest inward; inmost.
  2. most intimate or secret:

    one's innermost beliefs.



noun

  1. the innermost part.

innermost

/ ˈɪnəˌməʊst /

adjective

  1. being or located furthest within; central
  2. intimate; private

    innermost beliefs



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Word History and Origins

Origin of innermost1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; inner, -most

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Example Sentences

After all, the innermost sexual longings of presidents, both living and dead, have long been the stuff of rumor and conjecture.

Our innermost thoughts offered up to old friends from high school are there to be seen by some voyeuristic devil in Tasmania.

The “bonded leather” journal will offer “readers and aspiring writers a place where they can record their innermost thoughts.”

That may prove as challenging as Romney revealing his innermost self.

But if Hoover could bug the innermost sanctum of the Supreme Court, nothing was sacred for the FBI.

In the innermost, Atock, our locomotive engineer, and I chummed together.

Yet some little cell of innermost memory, stirring out of sleep, had surely given up its dead.

The membrane of the nucleus usually constitutes the innermost coat of the seed.

By degrees it became evident to him that the evil one was always at work, both inside and outside his innermost heart.

He seemed to be studying him afresh, as though he were trying to read his innermost thoughts.

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