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fathomlessly

fathomlessly adverb: in a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.

Adverb

fathomlessly (not comparable)

  1. In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
    • Prior Albert. Son! you relapse into revenge,
      If you regret your enemy’s bloodless death.
      Siegendorf. His death was fathomlessly deep in blood.1822, Lord Byron, Werner, London: John Murray, published 1823, act IV, scene 1, page 153
    • […] 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...1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Book I, Chapter I

Examples of fathomlessly in a sentence

  • They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure […]1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Book I, Chapter I:
  • […] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him […]2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

Origin of fathomlessly

From fathomless + -ly.

Questions about fathomlessly

What does fathomlessly mean?
Fathomlessly means in a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
How do you use fathomlessly in a sentence?
They were all inexorably earnest, aimlessly kind and fathomlessly pure […]
What part of speech is fathomlessly?
Fathomlessly is an adverb.

Words near fathomlessly in the dictionary

  1. fathomes
  2. fathometer
  3. fathometers
  4. fathoming
  5. fathomless
  6. fathomlessly
  7. fathomlessness
  8. fathomly
  9. fathoms
  10. fathren
  11. Faths

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