Adjective

(en-adj)

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}

Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

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Drastic, or of great severity.

Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.

the extreme hour of life

Adjective

(en-adj)

True, real, actual.

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*Bible, (w) xxvii. 21

*:whether thou be my very son Esau or not

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice.

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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

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The same; identical.

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*:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.

With limiting effect: mere.

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*:We have many examples in our daies, yea in very children, of such as for feare of some slight incommoditie have yeelded unto death.