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Definition of Closest
1. Adverb. (superlative of 'near' or 'close') within the shortest distance. "That was the time he came nearest to death"
Definition of Closest
1. Adjective. (superlative of close). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Closest
1. close [adj] - See also: close
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closest
Literary usage of Closest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"That there is a vast and great internal difference between those that are sincere
indeed and the closest hypocrites; or there are certain qualifications ..."
2. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"The closest and simplest relation of the tones is reached in the major mode, ^•when
all the tones of a melody are treated as constituents of the compound ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Both common observation and the closest scientific study have made it plain that
youth is the period of sense ascendency. From I FlO. 4. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The king's son Trdat (Tiridates), who had fled to Roman territory, restored the
kingdom and main- L—19 tained it in the closest connection wth Rome and in ..."
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