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fathomlessly

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Etymology

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From fathomless +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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fathomlessly (not comparable)

  1. 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 []