uttermore

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

uttermore (not comparable)

(obsolete) further; outer; utter.
- 1637, William Camden, Britain […] :
  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

References

“uttermore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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