uttermore

English

Etymology

Through folk etymology from analogy with uttermost, as though from utter +‎ more.

Adjective

uttermore

  1. (obsolete) comparative form of utter: more utter
    • 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:
      The two Pyramides in the middest whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another: the uttermore stand not farre off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides

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