yondermost meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

yondermost

adj

Etymology From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.

Furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate

[…] and resignation of himself to him, to be saved and guided by him, on his own terms, and in his own way, as the other, doth ; yet I say still, he hath not “precisely told us, what is the very yondermost step that the hypocrite may go, […]1777, James Durham, The Law Unsealed:
("I will sing the yondermost realms conterminous with the gliding world, which lie broadly open to spirits, which render to each the reward of his merits);" […]1853, Dante Alighieri, Dante's Divine comedy:

noun

Etymology From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.

The utmost; ultimate

But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were sitting every one under his vine and fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a league and covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged it my duty to oppose to the yondermost.1833, original 1650, Butler Leighton, Transaction of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 222:
Of this aspect of Buddhism, as citpresscd in the Saint Nipate, Nietzsche was aware: "When man, confined by views, holds in the world / A thing in worth and as the yondermost, / Then doth he say all else is lacking worth, / And hence he hath not passed beyond disputes."2011, Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism:

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The titles of these suttas – 'The Cave', 'Of Ill Will', 'Of the Cleansed', and 'Of the Yondermost' – give little indication of the spiritual significance of their contents, and no summary could do them justice.2013, Sangharakshita, Eternal Legacy: