English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English innermore, innermor, equivalent to inner +‎ -more.

Adjective edit

innermore

  1. (rare) comparative form of inner: more inner
    • 1934, Ralph Pemberton, Robert Bayley Osgood, The Medical and Orthopaedic Management of Chronic Arthritis:
      The synovial membrane may be considered to comprise the innermore of two strata which make up the joint capsule, whose function it is to maintain contact between the articular ends of the bones.
    • 1940, Supreme Court, page 1186:
      But in the innermore recesses, when you had a conversation with her along — by the way, do you have a notation of this conversation which I read you in your report?
    • 2000, E. Aubourg, Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology:
      Rotation must then have become slightly super-keplerian there, which can be achieved by magnetic tethering to innermore disk regions which rotate faster.
    • 2005, Frederick Cookinham, The Age of Rand:
      As the audacious traveler from the Amish superblock leaves home to seek his fortune, he will progress outward through surrounding superblocks of greater sophistication, compressing as he goes, and if life in the fast lane proves too stressful, he can decompress by retreating to innermore and innermore rings, finally coming home to the farm with the horse-drawn plow.
    • 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed with a Kiss, page 97:
      The innermore walls were sod inlayed with roots from trees, plants and weeds.