Ultimate
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"Metaphor is as ultimate as speech itself." --"Metaphor" (1927) by John Middleton Murry |
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- Final; last in a series.
- Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
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Etymology
From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimō, ultimāre (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
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Philosophy
- The Ultimate (philosophy), the concept of an unconditional reality in metaphysics or theology
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