Definition of "inmost"

inmost

adjective
not comparable
1. The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost
  Quotations
  Courtenaye was at once carried out of himself; he caught the fire of the actor; the splendid voice, the noble gesture, and the exalted sentiment, aided by the pomp of the verse, mastered his inmost soul.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Night”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 68
  Virginia Carteret was finding it a new and singular experience to have a man tell her baldly at their first meeting that he had read her inmost thought of him.
  1905, Francis Lynde, A Fool for Love, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, page 25
  It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, […]
  1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co.; republished as “A Fair Goddess”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, page 104
noun
plural inmosts
1. That which is innermost; the core.

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