a. superl. Obs. or dial. [f. BACK a.; late formation on type of hindermost, innermost: see -MOST.] By-form of BACKMOST.

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1669.  Churchw. Acc., in Archæol., XXXV. 449 (D.). In the gallery at Hampton in the backermost seat.

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1699.  in Phil. Trans., XXI. 287. Some of the backermost part of which [house] is an ancient Roman building.

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