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  • adjective superlative form of well: most well.

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Examples

  • And then she smiles up at me just as bright as on her wellest days, 'm, and says,' Call 'em Faith and Hope, 'Debby; that's what they would be to me if -- and not rightly onderstandin' of her, I breaks in,

    All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • The invalid was the wellest sick-man companion ever toured with.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • ” I have also heard more ultra, more worse, idealer, liver (that is, more alive), and wellest, as in “he was the wellest man you ever seen.

    Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 7. The Adjective Henry Louis 1921

  • I was the strongest and wellest man who had ever entered his office.

    The Motormaniacs Lloyd Osbourne 1907

  • He electrocuted me extra from a switchboard, ran red-hot needles into my legs, and finally, after banging me around the room, said I was the strongest and wellest man who had ever entered his office.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887

  • DEAR MRS. ROGERS, I believe I am the wellest man on the planet to-day, and good for a trip to Fair Haven (which I discussed with the Captain of the New Bedford boat, who pleasantly accosted me in the Grand Central

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) Mark Twain 1872

  • DEAR MRS. ROGERS, I believe I am the wellest man on the planet to-day, and good for a trip to Fair Haven (which I discussed with the Captain of the New Bedford boat, who pleasantly accosted me in the Grand Central

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

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