a. Obs. Forms: 1 læt(e)mest, (hlætmest), 3 latemist, -mest, 7 latmost. [OE. læt(e)mest, f. læt LATE a.1 + superl. suffix -mest.] Last.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Luke xii. 59. Ne gæs ðu ðona oðð uutedlice ðone hlætmesto [Rushw. lætemestu, Ags. Gosp. ytemystan] pricclu ðu forʓelde.
c. 975. Rushw. Gosp., John vi. 40. Aweco ic hine on ðæm lætemesta dæʓe.
c. 1275. Lay., 11080. Þat was þe latemiste [earlier text utemesten] read þat Custance iwarþ dead.
a. 1300[?]. Death, 49, in O. E. Misc., 171. Þe latemest dai deþ haueð ibrouhit.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks. (1672), III. 597. The latmost Head is counted both a Seventh and an Eighth, though in truth it be but the Seventh according to the Vision. Ibid., 609. The latter times of the Fourth Kingdom … are the latmost times of the last times, or last times in special.
