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Extremity   /ɛkstrˈɛməti/   Listen
Extremity

noun
(pl. extremities)
1.
An external body part that projects from the body.  Synonyms: appendage, member.
2.
An extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease).
3.
The greatest or utmost degree.
4.
The outermost or farthest region or point.
5.
That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso.



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... in summer, in order to avoid the annoyance of the fleas, of which there are great numbers. In winter they sleep on the ground on mats near the fire, so as to be warmer than they would be on the platform. They lay up a stock of dry wood, with which they fill their cabins, to burn in winter. At the extremity of the cabins there is a space, where they preserve their Indian corn, which they put into great casks made of the bark of trees and placed in the middle of their encampment. They have pieces of wood suspended, on ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain V3 • Samuel de Champlain
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... "I will not enter into the dispute between you, which I find his prudence put an end to before it came to extremity; but charge you to have a care of the first quarrel, as you tender your happiness; for then it is that the mind will reflect harshly upon every circumstance that has ever passed between you. If such an accident is ever to happen, which I hope ...
— Isaac Bickerstaff • Richard Steele
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... each had been long since eaten—most of them at the moment of being given out. Of course every one upon the raft was suffering the pangs of hunger, and had been enduring them until the appetite had reached the extremity ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid
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... Cabarrus accordingly went to the Pardo on the evening of the 11th of March. He saw the Minister, and mentioned the purpose of his visit. The Minister said, I must have misunderstood him; that it was not until the last extremity that I was to send him, and he desired M. Cabarrus to inform him when that should arrive. M. Cabarrus repeated to me his former offers, and assured me that nothing on his ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various
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... speaking, of a sudden he saw before him, at the extremity of the room, the lady of his dreams, the sphinx of his waking hours, the woman who four years earlier had torn up the note which he addressed to her, but who more recently had kept his written words. Both of them were deeply agitated, yet both of them carried off the situation ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr
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