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Quotation dates: 1716-1759, 1928
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YONDMOST, adj. Also yonmost, yontmaist. Farthest away, most distant. Also subst., the uttermost. Now only liter.Sc. 1716 W. Wisheart Theologia 393:
Here the Mercy of God is gone to the Yondmost.Abd. 1759 Session Papers, Forbes v. Fullarton (15 Jan.) 35:
About sixteen or seventeen Years ago, he cast Peats in the yonmost burnt Land contiguous to the Minister's Moss.Sc. 1928 T. T. Alexander Psalms viii. 1.:
That has Thy glory set abune The yontmaist lemin' star!
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