adv. Obs. Also 6–7 welmost(e. [Formed after ALMOST, by substitution of well for all. See WELL adv. 18.] Almost, well-nigh.
1550. Crowley, Epigr., 166. There are pore people, welmoste innumerable, That are dryuen to begge. Ibid., 324. They had boeth sore legges,… Al rawe from the fote welmost to the knee.
1556. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, Transl. Epist. A ij b. In this point … Englishmen are much inferiour to well most all other Nations.
1619. W. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess., To Rdr. Which hath made me welmost a meere Peripateticke in my studies.
1622. R. Harris, Sermon, To Rdr. Our vnthankfulnes and vnfruitfulnes hath welmost vndone vs. Ibid. (1626), Hezekiah’s Recov. (1630), 30. It [sickness] turnes him well-most into an Image.
