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Definition of Merest

Merest
Mere Mere, a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury.

Meaning of Merest from wikipedia

- two sides of one coin, and Cruz can shift from one to the other in the merest breath." Owen Gleiberman of Variety mentioned that "Cruz acts this part...
- Pablo Pic****o dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. ... No painter or sculptor, not even Michelangelo, had been...
- property in these gases; but having never published his results, it is by the merest chance that I knew of them.) See: Amontons, G. (presented 1699, published...
- proclaim" (1872). On 18 July 1847 she became the second wife of James Drege Merest, a magistrate of Bury St Edmunds. She died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 24...
- [CSRT] procedure is a sham; if a case like that can get through, then the merest scintilla of evidence against someone would carry the day for the government...
- a halt at Illuminatus Minor, with only the Minerval grade below and the merest sketches of higher grades. The only restrictions imposed were the need to...
- The trees are not at all delicate about water quality and thrive on the merest trickle of water, whatever the quality. In India and tropical countries...
- safety. He defended the UK's nuclear weapons and argued that it was "the merest casuistry to argue that if the weapon and the means of using it are purchased...
- spending money on rearmament, saying that the rearmament policy was "the merest scaremongering; disgraceful in a statesman of Mr Chamberlain's responsible...
- name is monkey cups, due to the nature of the plant's structure. Often the merest touch will leave a person with bits of cactus hanging on their clothes to...