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limitlessly

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From limitless +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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limitlessly (not comparable)

  1. In a limitless way.
    • 1834, Charles Reece Pemberton, Autobiography of Pel. Verjuice, Chapter 7, The Monthly Repository, 1834, Volume 8, p. 34,[1]
      How limitlessly, how indescribably beautiful were all these things!
    • 1897, Mark Twain, chapter 49, in Following the Equator [] [2], New York: American Publishing Company, page 460:
      Out in the country in India, the day begins early. One sees a plain, perfectly flat, dust-colored and brick-yardy, stretching limitlessly away on every side in the dim gray light []
    • 2001, Ann Patchett, chapter 8, in Bel Canto[3], London: Fourth Estate, published 2002, page 260:
      How much luck is one person entitled to in a night? Does it come in a limited allotment, like milk in a bottle, and when so much has been poured out then only so much is left? Or was luck a matter of the day, and on the day you’re lucky you are limitlessly lucky?

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