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† wellmost, adv. Obs.
Also 6–7 welmost(e.
[Formed after almost, by substitution of well for all. See well adv. 18.]
Almost, well-nigh.
1550Crowley Epigr. 166 There are pore people, welmoste innumerable, That are dryuen to begge. Ibid. 324 They had boeth sore legges,..Al rawe from the fote welmost to the knee. 1556T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer Transl. Epist. A ij b, In this point..Englishmen are much inferiour to well most all other Nations. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. To Rdr., Which hath made me welmost a meere Peripateticke in my studies. 1622R. Harris Sermon To Rdr., Our vnthankfulnes and vnfruitfulnes hath welmost vndone vs. 1626― Hezekiah's Recov. (1630) 30 It [sickness] turnes him well-most into an Image. |