Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Far (farthest)
far (farthest), adj. [OE.] (webplay: affection, country, Distant, go, heaven, justify, kingdom, man, nations, near, obedience, pass, perish, place, remote, separated, traveling, way, wide).
- Foreign; exotic; other-worldly; from another dimension.
- Late ; remote in time; long time away; near the end of.
- Distant; remote in place; geographically removed.
- Dusky; evening; bedtime; nighttime; after dark.
- Estranged; alienated; emotionally distant.
- Heavenly; celestial; paradisaical; immortal; far gone.
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