Meanings
- not comparableFurthest beyond or farthest away; most remote; ultimate
("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);" […]
1853, Dante Alighieri, Dante's Divine comedy1 more example
[…] 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, […]
1777, James Durham, The Law Unsealed
- uncountableThe utmost; ultimate
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.
2013, Sangharakshita, Eternal Legacy2 more examples
But when the King had granted you all your desires, and you were sitting every one under his vine and fig-tree, that then you should have taken a party in England by the hand, and entered into a league and covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged it my duty to oppose to the yondermost.
1833, original 1650, Butler Leighton, Transaction of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 222Of 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."
2011, Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From yonder + -most. Cognate with Scots ȝondirmast, ȝondermast, ȝondermaist.
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