fathomlessly

English

Etymology

fathomless +‎ -ly

Adverb

fathomlessly (not comparable)

  1. In a fathomless manner, to a fathomless degree.
    • 1822, Lord Byron, Werner, London: John Murray, 1823, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 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, 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, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,
      […] Wani’s look was so fathomlessly interesting to him […]
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