All 5 Uses of
utmost
in
Jane Eyre
- Still she had her merits; and I was disposed to appreciate all that was good in her to the utmost.†
p. 170.8 *
- Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.†
p. 229.8
- I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest.†
p. 398.5
- I shall leave the place probably in the course of a twelve-month; but while I do stay, I will exert myself to the utmost for its improvement.†
p. 408.2
- The feeling was not like an electric shock, but it was quite as sharp, as strange, as startling: it acted on my senses as if their utmost activity hitherto had been but torpor, from which they were now summoned and forced to wake.†
p. 483.3
Definition:
greatest