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superlative form of late: most late examples
(now rare, poetic) Last, final. quotations
Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
Most recent. examples
At the latest. examples
plural latests
The most recent thing, particularly information or news. quotations examples
And like other futile edifices of man these are inhabited for a brief space giving glory to the proprietor of the most unusual or striking and then left to melt back to dust and be forgotten, or worse yet, to become curiosities for generations with other "latests".
1926, George Gaylord Simpson, edited by Léo F. Laporte, Simple curiosity; letters from George Gaylord Simpson ..., published 1987, page 29
It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.
1979, Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page 54