English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Through folk etymology from analogy with uttermost, as though from utter + more.
Adjective
[edit]uttermore
- (obsolete) comparative form of utter: more utter
- 1637, William Camden, Britain […] :
- The two Pyramides in the middest whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another: the uttermore stand not farre off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides
References
[edit]- “uttermore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.