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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deepest; of utmost or greatest depth.

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  • Yellow, red, and blue flares darkening to deepmost purple twisted and writhed around there, raw energy disciplined and held in check by immense unseen forces.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Loud should Clan Alpine then, Ring from her deepmost glen,

    The Golden Book of Favorite Songs 1915

  • Down -- down -- down -- a formless mass of fibre and bone, the mist seemed to buoy it up when it reached the deepmost cascade, and as it disappeared through the tops of the pines I heard the coming of footfalls.

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • It is no doubt of volcanic origin, belched out of the bowels, and on to the surface, of the earth, by the sulphurous upheavings of subterraneous and subaqueous fires, and cooled and solidified into monstrous masses by the gelid currents of the deepmost waves of the most ancient of former oceans.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

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