Meaning of at the most | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“More hot water is added, and the mashing process⟳ repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter⟳, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings[…]”

“If I had been asked what was the rent⟳ of the house, I should have⟳ said, at the most, not more than twenty pounds, — because, between you and me, it wants a good bit of doing up, and is hardly fit to live⟳ in as it stands.”

“[Y]ou didn't need⟳ a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This was not an animal to be controlled—it was an animal to be, at the most, educated. She admitted accordingly that she was educative—which Maggie was so aware that she herself, inevitably, wasn't; so it came round to being true that what she was most in charge of was his mere intelligence.”

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