nethermost

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English neþermeste; equivalent to nether + -most.

The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded papers. — Ulysses, James Joyce
She thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell, as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of legitimacy; saw the arch-fiend tossing it with his three-pronged fork, like the one they used for heating the oven on baking days; to which picture she added many other quaint and curious details of torment sometimes taught the young in this Christian country. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
This garment beeing very side, was taken vp round about the pitch of her hippes, and before vpon her belly, & tyed about with the studded marriage girdle of Citherea, the plucking vp of y^e garment, bearing ouer the girdle about her like a french vardingale, & the nethermost part falling down about her feet in plightes and fouldes, vnstable and blowne about with the sweete ayre & coole winde, causing sometime, by the thinnesse thereof, her shape to be seene in it, which shee seemed with a prompt readinesse to resist and hynder. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna

bottommost, lowermost

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