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
They are set apart to grow their own peculiar traits of character, possible only to their prescribed environment, that they may thus push forward their own special gifts and endowments to their own ultimates.
From Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Anna Bishop Scofield
The conjugial sphere flows from the Lord through heaven into everything in the universe, even to its ultimates, n.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
