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immemorially

immemorially adverb: in an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.

Adverb

immemorially (comparative more immemorially, superlative most immemorially)

  1. In an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
    • […] by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 58”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • Yet, O reader, the brave woman accepted the lot, and took up the cry which had been its sign immemorially, and which thenceforward was to be her salutation without change—“Unclean, unclean!”1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book Six, Chapter 2

Forms of immemorially

comparativemore immemorially
superlativemost immemorially

Origin of immemorially

From immemorial + -ly.

Questions about immemorially

What does immemorially mean?
Immemorially means in an immemorial manner, from time immemorial.
What part of speech is immemorially?
Immemorially is an adverb.

Words near immemorially in the dictionary

  1. Immelt
  2. immemorable
  3. immemorably
  4. immemorial
  5. immemoriality
  6. immemorially
  7. immense
  8. Immensee
  9. immensely
  10. immenseness
  11. immensenesses

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