fathomlessly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fathomless + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]fathomlessly (not comparable)
- In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
- 1822, Lord Byron, Werner[1], London: John Murray, published 1823, act IV, scene 1, page 153:
- Prior Albert. Son! you relapse into revenge,
If you regret your enemy’s bloodless death.
Siegendorf. His death was fathomlessly deep in blood.
- 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep[2], Book I, Chapter I:
- […] she had had glimpses enough of the scene: of the audience of bright elderly women, with snowy hair, eurythmic movements, and finely-wrinkled over-massaged faces on which a smile of glassy benevolence sat like their rimless pince-nez. They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure […]
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- […] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him […]