midmost

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   literary: situated in or nearest the exact middle

   A narrow stripe ran down the midmost part of the animal's chest.

2. 2
   adv

   literary: in the very middle

   The standard-bearer rode midmost in the procession.

From Old English medemest, a superlative meaning 'middlemost,' later reshaped so that speakers could analyze it as mid + -most. It survives chiefly in literary descriptions of an exact or central middle.

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