Sentence:  Lincoln understood this better than <WSD>most</WSD> when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war , as the woe due to those by whom the offense came '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number