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Definition of Chiefest

1. a. First or foremost; chief; principal.

Definition of Chiefest

1. Adjective. (superlative of chief) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chiefest

1. chief [adj] - See also: chief

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefest

Literary usage of Chiefest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Let Ignorance a little while now muse On what is said, and let him not refuse Good counsel to embrace, lest he remain Still ignorant of what's the chiefest ..."

2. English Verse by Richard Henry Stoddard, William James Linton (1883)
"THE chiefest GOOD. The Stoics think (and they come near the truth) That virtue is the chiefest good of all; The Academics on Idea call; The Epicures in ..."

3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"A Voyage set out from the Citie of Bristoll at the charge of the chiefest Merchants and Inhabitants of the said Citie with a small Ship and a Barke for the ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"A Voyage set out from the Citie of Bristoll at the charge of the chiefest Merchants and Inhabitants of the said Citie with a small Ship and a Barke for the ..."

5. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"taries, and among the chiefest, came to me, and s; somewhat of a bullying air : " The Duke bids me that if you want your dismissal, he will grant it; ..."

6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"(3) 'A few Extracts from a Discourse concerning Origen and the chiefest of his Opinions ; first printed in the year 1661.' (4 ) ' Observations on the End ..."

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