Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOST, adv.

In the greatest or highest degree. Pursue that course of life which will most tend to produce private happiness and public usefulness. Contemplations on the works of God expand the mind and tend to produce most sublime views of his power and wisdom. As most is used to express the superlative degree, it is used before any adjective; as, most vile, most wicked, most illustrious.