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Definitions for nethermost
ˈnɛð ərˌmoʊst, -məstnether·most

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bottommost, lowermost, nethermostadjective

    farthest down

    "bottommost shelf"

Wiktionary

  1. nethermostadjective

    farthest down; lowest

  2. Etymology: From nether + most

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Nethermostnoun

    Lowest.

    Etymology: super. of nether.

    Great is thy mercy toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. Psalm lxxxvi. 13.

    Undaunted to meet there whatever pow’r,
    Or spirit, of the nethermost abyss
    Might in that noise reside. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

    All that can be said of a liar lodged in the very nethermost hell, is this, that if the vengeance of God could prepare any place worse than hell for sinners, hell itself would be too good for him. Robert South, Sermons.

    Heraclitus tells us, that the eclipse of the sun was after the manner of a boat, when the concave, as to our sight, appears uppermost, and the convex nethermost. John Keill, aga. Bur.

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  1. nethermost

    Nethermost refers to the absolute lowest or farthest point; situated or positioned beneath or below all others. It's the superlative form of "nether," meaning lower in position.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nethermostadjective

    lowest; as, the nethermost abyss

  2. Etymology: [AS. niemest. See Nether, and cf. Aftermost.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nethermost in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nethermost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of nethermost in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Trollope:

    I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

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