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at the most en · ADP

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of at most.
   alt of at most
   • 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. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
   • [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. 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
   • 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[…] 1835, Robert Dundas Thomson, Thomas Thomson, Records of General Science, volume 2, page 459: