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TOPMOST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or nearest to the top
Example:
on the topmost step
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
top (situated at the top or highest position)
Context examples:
Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral, without remorse, I made a virtue of necessity, and gave her a friendly salutation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was a sublimates condition of existence, the topmost peak of living, and it came rarely.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was impelled to suggest Locksley Hall, and would have done so, had not his vision gripped him again and left him staring at her, the female of his kind, who, out of the primordial ferment, creeping and crawling up the vast ladder of life for a thousand thousand centuries, had emerged on the topmost rung, having become one Ruth, pure, and fair, and divine, and with power to make him know love, and to aspire toward purity, and to desire to taste divinity—him, Martin Eden, who, too, had come up in some amazing fashion from out of the ruck and the mire and the countless mistakes and abortions of unending creation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
