Wagner: Die Walküre

I've spent much of to-day listening to Wagner's Die Walküre.  This is only the second time I've listened to it, and I haven't really tried to understand the story yet, but I did notice a small thing about a particular phrase (mostly because I happened to glance at the title of the movement).

Near the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1, Brünnhild sings, "Schützt mich und helft in höchster Not!"  ("Protect me and help in most dire need!"):

(notation found here)

The word "höchster" here is what caught my interest.  Paired with "Not" ("need," "distress," &c.), it's most likely to be translated as "most dire" (as I've done above*), but in other contexts, "höchster" would be translated as "highest."  In the melody here, the first note to which "höchster" is sung is the highest in the phrase, which emphasizes that superlative and mirrors that alternate meaning.

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*In double checking my translation with my German-English dictionary, I also found that "höchster" can be translated as "deepest" in some contexts, but considering that the note to which it's sung in this phrase is the highest, it would be something of a musical/lingual contradiction to translate it as such.