Yondermost
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Yondermost is an adjective meaning Furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate.
Meaning
Furthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate.
More Meanings
- The utmost; ultimate
Example Sentences
("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);" […]
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.
[…] 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, […]
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."
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include furthest, outmost, hintermost, outwardmost, uttermost, westmost.
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