Sentence:  It is an understandable paradox that <WSD>most</WSD> American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree