outermost
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of outermost
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at outer, -most
Example Sentences
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Plus reviews of “Ocean Explorer” and “The Outermost Mouse.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“At the tip of the beach, where the land slipped away, sat a little cottage called the Outermost House.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The National Park Service of the 1950s adopted “The Outermost House” and “Cape Cod” as justifications for establishing a 44,000-acre national seashore of secluded beaches and mysterious bogs in coastal Massachusetts.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2017
The result of his study is a piece of popular oceanography worthy of shelf space alongside Rachel Carson's classic Edge of the Sea and Henry Beston's Outermost House.
From Time Magazine Archive
Acharya Genshin, the Great Teacher, considering one of the Sutra with the commentary of Ekanzenji, hath made plain the attributes of the Land of Outermost Places.
From Wisdom of the East Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin by Shinran
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