mainest

English

Adjective

mainest

  1. (nonstandard) superlative form of main: most main
    • 1844, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volumes 32-33, page 196:
      Feeling, however, that it was of the mainest importance to the cause, and to his client, not only to prove that he was a liberal but an orthodox politician, he shut himself up more than a month in his study, refusing all other business []
    • 1970, Margarete Orga, The house on the Fontanka: Modern Soviet short stories, page 62:
      I ran back again, then set out in the opposite direction — it must be somewhere, the cobbled road, the mainest road in all the world.
    • 2014, Emily Barton, The Testament Of Yves Gundron:
      Yes, we dig him deeply,
      He's the mainest, mainest, mainest man.

Anagrams

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Noun

mainest

  1. elative singular of maine
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