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INNER

inner - a 
located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" 
exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government" 
inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear" 

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Synonyms

inside, interior, internal, inward, inmost, innermost, central, mid, middle, midmost

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Examples

“A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the count's niece, entered with a cold, stern face.”

“Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.”

“It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labour, but now it was quite differently lit up.”

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Etymology

c. 1400, from Old English inra, comparative of inne (adv.) "inside" (see in (adv.)). Similar formation in Old High German innaro, German inner. The original order of comparison was in/inner/inmost; the evolution has been unusual for a comparative, and inner has not been used with than since Middle English.

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