INMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inmost mean? 

• INMOST (adjective)
  The adjective INMOST has 2 senses:

1. being deepest within the self

2. situated or occurring farthest within

  Familiarity information: INMOST used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being deepest within the self

Synonyms:

inmost; innermost

Context example:

one's innermost feelings

Similar:

inward (relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Situated or occurring farthest within

Synonyms:

inmost; innermost

Context example:

the innermost chamber

Similar:

inner (located or occurring within or closer to a center)

 Context examples 

“Most preposterous!” I exclaimed, and then suddenly realizing how he had echoed the inmost thought of my soul, I sat up in my chair and stared at him in blank amazement.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I gnashed my teeth and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was such deep fondness for him, and gratitude to him for all his love and care, in her beautiful look; and there was such a fervent appeal to me to deal tenderly by him, even in my inmost thoughts, and to let no harsh construction find any place against him; she was, at once, so proud of him and devoted to him, yet so compassionate and sorry, and so reliant upon me to be so, too; that nothing she could have said would have expressed more to me, or moved me more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I knew, he continued, you would do me good in some way, at some time;—I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not—(again he stopped)—did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have exposed one whom I hold in my heart, to trials and aspersions—I call them aspersions, even to have been conceived in anybody's inmost mind—of which she never, but for me, could have been the object.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)