secondmost

English

Etymology

Probably influenced by foremost and other such terms (hindmost, etc).

Adverb

secondmost (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of second most.
   • 1973, Leon Quera, Advertising campaigns: formulation and tactics, page 79:

     Usually he cannot even buy time on the secondmost popular program on the secondmost popular network.

   • 1984, Frans Plank, Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations, page 10:

     In fact, this sort of initial stance explains inter alia: (a) secondmost nuclear status in valency marking...

   • 2003, Michael John O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, Cladistics and Archaeology, page 213:

     Those two derived character states affected the location of maximum blade width (proximal quarter → secondmost proximal quarter) and the length/width ratio (3.00-3.99 → 2.00-2.99).

   • 2014, William J. Folan, Coba: A Classic Maya Metropolis, page 31:

     Next to the tzekel, the kankab–tzekel soils are the secondmost extensive in the Yucatan state; like the tzekel, they are transitional among Lithosoils, Rendzina and Terra Rossa.