aldermost en · ADJ
Etymology
From alder- + most.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Most of all.
So the king bade Thord bear forth the banner, but he himself followed the banner, and that company withal which he had chosen to be anigh him in the battle. And those men were the aldermost of daring and the best arrayed in his company.
1894, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga Library, Volume 4: