ultimate
adjective
last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series.
ultimates
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pluralof ultimate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me.
From Time Magazine Archive
For its central ideas relate to the remotest ultimates, and its dominant prepossession, the Overman, is, in the final reckoning, the creature of a Utopian fancy.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
He is no longer concerned with psychological ultimates, or real costs.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
