Closest
Closest adverb - (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- First, the virus is spread by the physically intimate act of linking, the closest Changeling analog to sex.
- Using no honorific at all (called yobisute) is also an honorific — it's a "null honorific", and it means the speaker is addressing the person to whom he is speaking in an intimate and familiar manner usually restricted to family, spouses or one's closest friends.
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Yoshimune even acknowledged on Sugishita's deathbed that though they were never intimate, he was the closest thing she had to a husband (and it didn't hurt that her daughters regarded him as their father).
Source: Manga / Ooku
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