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mid·most

 (mĭd′mōst′)
adj.
1. Situated in the very middle; middlemost.
2. Situated nearest the middle.
3. Most private; innermost.
adv.
In the middle.
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midmost

(ˈmɪdˌməʊst)
adj, adv
in the middle or midst
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mid•most

(ˈmɪdˌmoʊst)

adj.
1. being in or near the very middle; middlemost; middle.
2. most intimate or private; innermost.
adv.
3. in the midmost part; in the middle.
[1655–65; Middle English, Old English mid mest]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.midmost - being in the exact middlemidmost - being in the exact middle    
central - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"
Adv.1.midmost - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?"
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Translations

midmost

[ˈmɪdməʊst] ADJ (liter) → el/la más cercano/a al centro
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I will have every joint of you unhinged so that you will be like a jelly-fish, like a fat pig with the bones removed, and I will then stake you out in the midmost centre of the dog-killing ground to swell in pain under the sun.
But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman called Ruth in the midmost centre of it; and thenceforth he must know bitter tastes, and longings sharp as pain, and hopelessness that tantalized because it fed on hope.
The young leader snarled terribly, but his snarl broke midmost into a tickling cough.
Bassett had pricked up his ears at the suggestion that it was a white man's head; for he had long since come to accept that these jungle-dwellers, in the midmost centre of the great island, had never had intercourse with white men.
But for the stray brown on his muzzle and above his eyes, and for the splash of white hair that ran midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf, larger than the largest of the breed.
This Delphi was supposed to be the very midmost spot of the whole world.
Strange outshone the parting of the hair of her head, even as a flash of lightning that cleaveth the midmost hour of night.
In the youngest and the midmost age groups, gender differences were significant when stratified by age (p = 0.001 and p = 0.044 for 35- to 45- and 46- to 55-year-olds, respectively).
to a proto-Thoreauvian "little hermitage," his "one exclusive possession" that "symbolized [his] individuality," situated up among the "midmost branches of a white-pine tree" (33).