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What does extremity mean?

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Noun
  1. The most extreme or furthest point of something. [from c. 1400]
  2. An extreme measure.
  3. A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]
  4. A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”). [from early 15th c.]
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Look at a newborn baby's foot and you will observe a perfect little extremity, well formed with straight toes.
The mission involved a patrol to the northern-most extremity of the Solomon archipelago, to a picturesque atoll called Ontong Java.
Indeed, the intensity of belonging to a culture of extremity is repeatedly amplified through the media.
That type of behaviour is part and parcel with the over-the-top extremity that is black metal.
Are you a great gun yourself, that you so recoil, to the extremity of your breechings, at that discharge?
The largest rock, Big Black Carr, can be seen at the seaward extremity of St Abbs Bay, as you look out from the harbour mouth.

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