Inmost
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2017 James LaFond
FEB/13/17
“His wild horsemen worshipped him in their savage way, but he was an alien among them, after all, and they could never understand his inmost thoughts.”
-Lord of Samarcand
Particularly in his historic fiction, Howard used a terser diction than what might be expected by the reader, as in the use of inmost instead of the more conventional innermost, a habit that is both subtly and starkly effective in conveying the direct and abrasive nature of his Crusader Era heroes. .
1. in•most
[ˈinˌmōst]
ADJECTIVE
1. literary
innermost.
ORIGIN
Old English innemest (see in, -most).
fate
the lesser angels of our nature
thriving in bad places
uncle satan
taboo you
the fighting edge
logic of steel
orphan nation
predation
the sunset saga complete
beasts of aryas
son of a lesser god
blue eyed daughter of zeus
triumph
logic of force
into leviathan’s maw
the greatest lie ever sold
honor among men
sons of aryas
the first boxers
solo boxing
the combat space
sorcerer!
winter of a fighting life
the greatest boxer
when you're food
the year the world took the z-pill
on combat
menthol rampage
all-power-fighting
let the world fend for itself
ranger?
cracker-boy
night city
on the overton railroad
advent america
masculine axis
hate
dark, distant futures
songs of aryas
within leviathan’s craw
book of nightmares
broken dance
by the wine dark sea
fiction anthology one
the gods of boxing
under the god of things
your trojan whorse
barbarism versus civilization
fanatic
america the brutal
wife—
time & cosmos
song of the secret gardener
z-pill forever