middest

English

Noun

middest (usually uncountable, plural middests)

Obsolete form of midst.

Adjective

middest (not comparable)

(obsolete) Situated nearest the middle; middlemost; midmost.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
  Yet the stout Faerie mongst the middest crowd.

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