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uttermost

adjective as in extreme

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In Shackleton’s time, the hardiest adventurers — those strivers to the uttermost — made journeys to the poles.

He traveled to the uttermost parts of the Earth, seeking wisdom from indigenous cultures about what it means to be fully human.

I sink down again, huddled, strained to the uttermost.

“The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.”

For them it was paneremos, the ‘uttermost desert’, while French travellers in the Sahara in the eighteenth century knew it as le désert absolu.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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