Variest vs Veriest - What's the difference?
variest | veriest |
(very); truest, most
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* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.81:
As a verb variest
is .As an adjective veriest is
(very); truest, most.veriest
English
Adjective
(head)- Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
- If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.
- He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict.