midmost
Americanadjective
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being in the very middle; middlemost; middle.
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being or occurring at or near the middle part or point of.
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most intimate or private; innermost.
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of midmost
before 1000; mid- + -most; replacing Middle English, Old English mid mest
Example Sentences
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As in the ocean's midmost depth no wave is born, But all is still, so let the monk be still, be Motionless, and nowhere should he swell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except that it soon mentions things unmentionable in the 1870's, Hatter's Castle starts off like a midmost Victorian novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In the midmost glee of the Christmas And the mirth of the glad New Year, A guest has turned from the revel, And we sit in silence here.
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb
"Thunder from midmost night it was not; For yonder at the bars Burn to their summer setting her Clear constellated stars."
From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by De la Mare, Walter
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